From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 12:57:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0557516A407 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:57:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za (sirian.hst.org.za [209.203.2.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB5E43D46 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:57:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from localhost (localhost.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E8E31CE37 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:57:01 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sirian.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45232-04 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:57:01 +0200 (SAST) Received: by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4FD7D31CE21; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:57:01 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za (sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za [10.1.1.20]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB05F31CE07 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:57:00 +0200 (SAST) From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Health Systems Trust To: FreeBSD Questions list Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:59:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609131459.05492.jonathan@hst.org.za> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on sirian.hst.org.za X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hst.org.za Subject: Using PC as serial terminal on running system 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: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:57:58 -0000 I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. However, I need to be able to connect the laptop to a machine which was booted without a serial console. I've set the ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys and sigHUPed init. The machine is still not recognising the presence of the ``serial terminal'' - the getty(1) process on the server is not bound to a controlling terminal and nothing is appearing in the tip(1) screen on the laptop. I've also tried fiddling about with conscontrol, adding ttyd0 on the server - still no difference. Have I missed a trick somewhere, or do I really need to reboot the server to get it to recognise a PC connected as a serial terminal? (Connection is laptop - USB - BAFO 810 USB/serial adapter - null-modem cable - server) Jonathan