From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 2 19:32:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEB316A403; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D0C43D45; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:32:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k62JWOOQ024337; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:32:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:32:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20060702193224.GD4915@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060627175853.765a590e@localhost> <20060628101729.J50845@fledge.watson.org> <20060702173338.00a5ed44@localhost> <20060702170843.C67344@fledge.watson.org> <20060702190520.3b344c83@localhost> <20060702182302.H80381@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060702182302.H80381@fledge.watson.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Peter Thoenen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:32:36 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 02), Robert Watson said: > On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Fabian Keil wrote: > >The ssh man page offers: > > > >|~B Send a BREAK to the remote system (only useful for SSH > >| protocol version 2 and if the peer supports it). > > > >I am using ssh 2, but the only reaction I get is a new line. > > > >|FreeBSD/i386 (tor.fabiankeil.de) (ttyd0) > >| > >|login: ~B If you enter ~B and actually see a ~B printed to the screen, then ssh didn't process it because you didn't hit first. So ~B will tell ssh to send a break. > It sounds like your serial console server may not know how to map SSH > break signals into remote serial break signals. Try > ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. Here's the description from NOTES: > > # Solaris implements a new BREAK which is initiated by a character > # sequence CR ~ ^b which is similar to a familiar pattern used on > # Sun servers by the Remote Console. > options ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER ... and if you're sshing to your terminal server, remember that ssh will eat that tilde (because you sent ~ ), so you need to send ~~^B to pass the right characters to FreeBSD. Or change ssh's escape character with the -e flag. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com