Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:01:54 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson <ken@allenmyland.com> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial console for dummies? Message-ID: <43DCD8E2.8060303@allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <pan.2006.01.29.08.39.42.248143@sremick.net> References: <pan.2006.01.29.08.39.42.248143@sremick.net>
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Scott I. Remick wrote: > Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error > messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around > the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). > > I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html but > I'm not clear about how much of that applies to what I want to do, since > it talks about setting it up for a headless system (no keyboard or > monitor) and actually instructs you to remove the keyboard. I've also > searched the mailing list archives but I've read a lot of conflicting > info, much of which for different uses of the serial console than what I > want to use it for, and I've now read back so far that I can't even be > certain that the suggestions apply to FreeBSD 6.0. Ugh > > So is there someone who can give me a hand-held walk-through of just what > I need to do to make this work? I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and live > in X (Gnome) all the time. My intention here is to be able to see console > messages (Errors) so when something dies (like X locking, which happens > sometimes) I have a chance to see what the heck happened. I have an old > 486 laptop I intend to use as the "dumb terminal", as well as the > necessary null modem cable. I just need to know what to configure on my > FreeBSD box so that console errors are mirrored to the serial port. Thanks! > I was trying to accomplish the same thing a couple weeks ago and somebody recommended the following: touch /var/log/console.log Edit /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the line that begins with console.info. Reboot (you might be able to just restart syslogd). -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.
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