Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:54:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: effective use of serial console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010092250160.946-100000@parmenides.utp.net> In-Reply-To: <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com>
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I have read somewhere that the classic trick is to add an user to your system with "shutdown" as login shell. ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > > I've got a stack of servers at a co-lo facililty about 35 minutes > drive from here (non-rush hour...) and I'd like to make best use of > the serial console feature of FreeBSD. > > So far with my in-office experiments, I have been able to do just > about everything I need. My only question is how can I force a reboot > similar to the CTL-ALT-DEL key sequence on a local console? I was > hoping a BREAK signal would do it, but the best I can do is make it > drop to a debugger. I don't really need debugger support in my > production kernels, but I guess if that's the only way to accomplish > it... > > How do others set this up? I guess I'm really looking for a really > fail-safe serial console. > > Thanks. > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. > Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 > GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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