Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:39:42 -0500 From: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: serial console for dummies? Message-ID: <pan.2006.01.29.08.39.42.248143@sremick.net>
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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!
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