From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jan 12 10:46:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk [194.128.162.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD2B1554A for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:46:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk ([193.195.56.225]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA11245; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:46:07 GMT Message-ID: <387CCBEF.6F49D1CF@algroup.co.uk> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:46:07 +0000 From: Adam Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console disappears after reboot References: <200001120149.UAA09158@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Crist J. Clark wrote: > > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I would prefer to simply do something > > in /etc/rc.local to force the console back to local kb/vga, or disable > > the serial console in the kernel itself... so my question is: what? Is > > there such a command/setting? > > If a console has "died," you should, > > # kill -HUP 1 > > To refresh. Rebooting the machine a second time should not be > necessary. Since you can access the machine's remotely, this should > work. Unfortunately not. I assume it only tries to refresh the serial console. The only other suggestion (thanks to all that posted it) was to disable console on sio0. Sadly this doesn't work either. Any more takers? :) cheers, Adam -- Adam Laurie Tel: +44 (181) 742 0755 A.L. Digital Ltd. Fax: +44 (181) 742 5995 Voysey House Barley Mow Passage http://www.aldigital.co.uk London W4 4GB mailto:adam@algroup.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM PGP key on keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message