From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 17: 8: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.slightlystrange.org (icarus.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432A637B407 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 17:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danielby by icarus.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 179xC0-0008Ta-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 01:07:56 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 01:07:56 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Logging in over serial console Message-ID: <20020521000756.GB32542@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have my firewall box (4.5-RELEASE) sending its boot messages to the serial console, using -P in /boot.config. Am I supposed to be able to use the console to get a log in? It would be handy, as I have a two-way KVM switch, and three machines - if the only single-boot, functionally- dedicated machine could be booted and used over the console, I wouldn't have to keep smacking the back of my head on the underside of my desk as I change cables over! I can't find any more notes about this in the docs or Google, so thought I'd turn to y'all for help. Thanks for any insights. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message