Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +0000 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: serial console for dummies? Message-ID: <1138530083.23657.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> 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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On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:39, 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! > Scott, I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log Another thought is to connect via a network connection and SSH into the machine that will give you a console. Rob
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