From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 21:14:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CD216A405 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7951F13C45A for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.182]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA43785C8F5; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:14:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43918-10; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:14:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-89-241-126.eastlink.ca [24.89.241.126]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A34B85C8C4; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:14:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B723669E; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:14:57 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:14:57 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Derek Ragona , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <382F7DBCA05C7674D542FCFC@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410150409.02531170@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410100710.025273c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <0FC87C0D2B43ABA3F0CECCAD@ganymede.hub.org> <6.0.0.22.2.20070410150409.02531170@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.7 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:14:56 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 15:09:24 -0500 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 02:11 PM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been >> using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers >> that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely without headaches ... I only >> need to be able to access one at a time ... >> >> I've tried the 'serial console' route, but if the server crashes, logging >> in to >> the serial console doesn't show you anything, whereas, with the HP 'remote >> console' feature, its the same as a KVM, where running it does a screen >> refresh, so that I can see what is on the screen at the time of the crash ... > > The simplest thing you can do is to make sure you are logging the console > messages. I set all remote servers to log the actual console output to a > separate log file in /etc/syslog.conf adding the line: > console.info /var/log/console.log > > and adding a line to /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate the logs: > /var/log/console.log 600 5 100 * J I'm looking at 'post-crash' kind of error messages ... after the point that the hard drives are no longer being written to ... as well as the ability to login remotely during a reboot when it gets to teh point that it says 'hit RETURN for /bin/sh' because it had a problem with fsck'ng a drive, that sort of thing ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGG/5R4QvfyHIvDvMRAnfyAJ9Bxl0M0EjuG4RJSItZQLwYC2j8hgCfWm5O XE2W/bqgRK3DyXDGf1no/4Y= =er1i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----