From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 13 9:33:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from manor.msen.com (manor.msen.com [148.59.4.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED03A37B405 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by manor.msen.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA14730 for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:33:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wayne) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:33:52 -0500 From: "Michael R. Wayne" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.7 FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011113123351.Y67008@staff.msen.com> References: <200111121213.fACCDIs17827@loki.uk.intranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200111121213.fACCDIs17827@loki.uk.intranet>; from andys@telinco.net on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:13:18PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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