Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:13:35 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: effective use of serial console Message-ID: <200010091813.MAA13479@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:10:51 EDT." <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com> References: <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com>
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In message <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com> Vivek Khera writes: : 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. You can always hack sio to make the break character call reboot rather than debugger. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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