From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 10 19:14:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from boom.calcasieu.com (mail.calcasieu.com [209.99.46.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B005714C2A; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@calcasieu.com) Received: from coypu.bb.calcasieu.com (coypu.bb.calcasieu.com [192.168.3.21]) by boom.calcasieu.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA14623; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:13:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:13:40 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Calcasieu Lumber From: Don Read To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Phil Homewood , Mike Nowlin Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ? 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message