From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 11:37:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E69F10656AE for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:37:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5C18FC08 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke49 with SMTP id e49so2496956eek.13 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:37:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=dC/0G9c9qmJSQD8UTlGLT3z6uxDg9np2Yhdc8tR+Cfo=; b=ckgypDRyUZY/v016yq0CPpnGGxJRhjlOeod2XNmScPGnkzX8l3Im5M37uiTleBE3jF pZFY7tNocuEpeQ/ZhvEgGwR2LqGqEUJSk11OZQ5IHu2CFwO5SiGhrhu3O5JcUETem35y iYPwc/o6UGam0HDAiQ7UDBjag/y6BGgXX9cnOP1nE94fBXrtqp5i0A9M/J98EHEpL+bf 2xGwzLM/f//2q9k9qAfx0DUld3ZGzz1JME+hQq62AsdtMfZHMgV6E6tWqGCyVD3U0VVh QcYP3b9qFFR9IgdLk4ZxaCWMlpBlo4h1BfUAhakIf2oUp21YQcBPM/RjZwIPpaSo5pcB 37VQ== Received: by 10.14.95.131 with SMTP id p3mr6425710eef.125.1339501030354; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e45sm63334875eeb.6.2012.06.12.04.37.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FD729E3.6070405@my.gd> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:37:07 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <201206101128.q5ABShXN007826@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkZIee3wXviGafTqiYzGUtzDMNRlIM9H7BEZ87NZ7z4ZXD9J3PCWLy5nf7m1e1lGhlwHxW9 Subject: Re: su problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:37:12 -0000 On 6/10/12 1:52 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> Sami Halabi wrote: >> > Hi Oliver, >> > I saw you had similar problem for console on 2010 >> > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Serial-console-problems-with-stab=le-8-td3950684.html >> >> No, I don't think that the problem is related. My problem >> was with the serial console, while you don't have a serial >> console attached at all (at least you didn't mention it). >> >> > but the thread wasn't ended by recommendation or conclusions by you. >> > >> > did you solve that problem then? >> >> No, I came to the conclusion that the serial console support >> in FreeBSD 8 was broken somehow. So I removed the console >> cable; it's running with an old VGA CRT as the console for >> now. Fortunately I require console access very seldom, so >> I don't have to drive to that machine often. It's still >> annoying, but I didn't find a better solution; downgrading >> to 7.x isn't an option. >> > just for the record, serial on 8.x works fine! the device naming has changed > from sio to uart, and maybe some features. We use it on all our servers, even > redirecting it where possible via ILO,IMPI,DRAC. and is great for debuging > or saving long trips :-) > > WARNING: control access to these devices, specialy since root can login > on the console! > > danny > Daniel, would you kindly elaborate on the DRAC console redirection thingy ? We're using Dells here and I loathe having to use their web interface and the java app to get a console shell.