From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 18:47:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca (jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca [142.177.1.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C867014E09 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:47:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phazer@ns.sympatico.ca) Received: from bonzai ([142.177.193.218]) by jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 607-63094U73000L73000S0V35) with SMTP id ca for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:47:25 -0400 Message-ID: <01a001bf355d$342d2df0$0100a8c0@phazer.org> From: phazer@ns.sympatico.ca (Christian Taylor) To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Serial console from other machines Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:48:21 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, There may be an answer to my question somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it in the archives or the handbook or FAQ anywhere... anyway... I have a server running FreeBSD, and two other headless machines (one is an old Mac running NetBSD/mac68k and the other is a Quake server running FreeBSD). Since I don't have monitors for these machines, I'd like to set up serial consoles on them and run them to the FreeBSD server. But... I don't really want to have to login to use them. What I'd like, is to add two more virtual consoles to my kernel, and have the serial consoles of the other two machines show up there (ie. so I could use say Alt-F5 and Alt-F6 to access their consoles). It would act similar to a keyboard/monitor multiplexer. Is there a way I can set up my /etc/ttys file to do this? Basically, just redirect all input/output on a given virtual console to/from a given serial port. Has anyone done this, or have any ideas how I could go about setting it up? I hope it's clear what I'm trying to do... Thanks in advance! -Christian -- Christian Taylor phazer@ns.sympatico.ca http://www.phazer.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message