From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 10 21:40:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AEB115526 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:40:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 45123 invoked from network); 11 Jun 1999 04:40:32 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 11 Jun 1999 04:40:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (dscheidt@localhost) by shell-3.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id XAA26419; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:40:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell-3.enteract.com: dscheidt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:40:31 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Don Read Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Don Read wrote: > > Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ? > > Suns do this. They sense the terminal power off as a break. One previous ork place had a bunch of rack mounted suns, sharing a serial console via a switch box. There was a problem that sometimes switching from one machine to another would cause a break. Someone wired it slightly different, and included a push button on the switch box to send a break. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message