Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:33:52 -0500 From: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.7 FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011113123351.Y67008@staff.msen.com> In-Reply-To: <200111121213.fACCDIs17827@loki.uk.intranet>; from andys@telinco.net on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:13:18PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10111091238390.5753-100000@gumby.citytel.net> <200111121213.fACCDIs17827@loki.uk.intranet>
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With all the issues surrounding keyboards, it would be REALLY useful to have a command to tell the kernel to just enable the keyboard now no matter what. /\/\ \/\/ On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:13:18PM +0000, Andrew Stothard wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2001 8:53 pm, Keith Woodworth wrote: > > Folks...weve had a 2.1.7 machine colo'd here for a few years (3 days shy > > of 500 days of uptime) and most of that time it has not had a > > monitor/keyboard plugged into it. (just ssh in all the time) > > One thing you could try to get local access without rebooting would be to > change /etc/ttys so there was a getty attached to one of the serial ports. On > 4.x and 3.x you would edit the line for ttyd0 and change the "off" to "on" > (I'm not sure if it would work on 2.1.7) and then run "init q". Then you > could just plug a terminal into the right serial port. > > While it doesn't solve the keyboard problem this would give you local access > to the server to change it's IP address without requiring a reboot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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