From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 3 19:50:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C818B37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505CC43E6A for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g842oPfO090404; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g842oPKp090403; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:50:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:50:25 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AXPpci33 <-> Sparc sun4c serial cable Message-ID: <20020904025025.GA90319@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20020903190239.A48033@gnah.bolet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:33:41PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > ** What software should I use on the Alpha box ? I know there exists > > some program called "minicom", which has a FreeBSD port, that might > > be adequate. But is this the standard solution ? > > Minicom is pretty silly because it combines terminal emulation and > communication functions in the style of corresponding PC programs. > (It's roughly a clone of Telix for MS-DOS.) On a Unix box you > already have a terminal, no need to insert an emulation layer. A > simple communication program such as cu(1) or tip(1), or kermit(1) > from the ports, will do. Surprised no one mentioned conserver -- it is great in that you can can have one person using it, and multiple people watching what is going on. It is nice to be on the console at home, and when I go to work temperary "bump" the home process. But when I return home, I still have the full console output. One can do this with screen(1), but it takes planning that using conserver does not. ALSO conserver logs all console output to a file. So if you wondered what was printed out then the box paniced -- you know. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message