From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 6:34:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.program-products.co.uk (samson.program-products.co.uk [212.240.242.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F6A14C4F for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 06:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from terry@program-products.co.uk) Received: by mailgate.program-products.co.uk via smap (V2.1) id xma056828; Wed, 26 May 99 14:34:25 +0100 To: ip@mcc.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console terminal server and power loss References: <199905261035.LAA36678@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> From: Terry Glanfield Date: 26 May 1999 14:34:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: Ian Pallfreeman's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 11:35:47 +0100 (BST)" Message-Id: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Pallfreeman writes: > As an ex-Sun admin I've a (slowly decreasing) pile of Sun boxes which are > attached to a mixture of dumb terminals and both Sun and FreeBSD console > servers. I got this trick somewhere off the net back in the late 80's. It's > mainly to avoid a Sun dropping into the prom when a terminal dies or is > unplugged, but seems to work just as well for hanging a Sun on a console > server. Wonderful Ian, just what I was looking for. I'll let you know how it goes. Cheers, Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message