Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:13:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read <dread@calcasieu.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com>, Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Subject: Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? Message-ID: <XFMail.990610211340.dread@calcasieu.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906100903150.49155-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On 10-Jun-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote:
>
>> > > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b
>> > > (as
>> >
>> > Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I
>> > have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which
>> > do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process
>> > leaves them. Dropping to DDB every time you reboot the other machine
>> > is, uh, less than desirable behaviour. :-)
>>
>> Agreed, but this may be quite a project... doing a "cd ~bob" would be
>
> the general idea is that this wouldn't only register as a 'break' when
> issud over the serial console, nowhere else...I know, some ppl use the
> serial console as a regular login, but my experience is that its painfully
> slow and good "for maintenance only"
>
Agree also, my DG/UX (a SysV) sees a series of about twenty open-bracket,
close-bracket "[]" on the console as a signal to jump into ROM.
I've only had to use it once; the box was so far in the weeds that I couldn't
get a login.
<boggle>
Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ?
</boggle>
Regards,
---
Don Read dread@calcasieu.com
EDP Manager dread@texas.net
Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX
-- Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy
and taste good with ketchup.
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