Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:40:30 -0800 From: Brian Matheson <bmath@juniper.net> To: phazer@ns.sympatico.ca (Christian Taylor) Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Serial console from other machines Message-ID: <199911230340.TAA06687@red.juniper.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:48:21 -0400." <01a001bf355d$342d2df0$0100a8c0@phazer.org>
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You should be able to replace the /usr/libexec/getty in /etc/ttys with your favorite terminal program (like maybe "cu -s 9600 -l /dev/cuaa1"). There may be terminal emulation issues to worry about though. > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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