From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Nov 11 16:19:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FB237B417 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from veager.jwweeks.com ([65.14.122.116]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011112001906.RQSS11207.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@veager.jwweeks.com>; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:19:06 -0800 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 19:19:01 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Weeks X-Sender: jim@veager.jwweeks.com To: David Friedman Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.7 FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20011111162924.A52144@mail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I will pose this as a question since I don't know for sure whether this would work, maybe someone could verify. If you had a specific keymap entry in /etc/rc.conf, would running /etc/netstart reset the keyboard? I use netstart to reread rc.conf pretty often, and I have my keymap specified as keymap="/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd". I just haven't ever had a problem with the keyboard becoming inoperable. -- Jim Weeks On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, David Friedman wrote: > * Keith Woodworth (kwoody@citytel.net) wrote: > > > > Folks...weve had a 2.1.7 machine colo'd here for a few years (3 days shy > > of 500 days of uptime) and most of that time it has not had a > > monitor/keyboard plugged into it. (just ssh in all the time) > > > > Few weeks ago I rearranged the equipment room and plugged in a > > keyboard/monitor but the console wont respond to keyboard. Last time I > > used a keyboard on this machine was probably about a year ago to change > > the IP of the NIC and a few other things. Unplugged the keyboard and its > > sat in the corner and hummed away ever since. Even then it had at least > > 200 days of uptime w/no keyboard plugged in before I made the IP change. > > > > Is there a process I can maybe HUP to get to the keyboar to work? Or do I > > need a complete reboot? > > > > THanks, > > Keith > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > Do you remember if the keyboard was plugged in when you initially > booted the machine up? > > It's not generally a good idea to plug the keyboard in while > the computer is on. I suggest shutting down first. > > (No, I'm not aware of any process to HUP to get it to work.) > -- > David Friedman - http://www.away.net/ > > Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" > Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message