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Date:      Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:01:48 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Terminals
Message-ID:  <20050905000148.GD43293@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <005401c5b191$79c9a6c0$6601a8c0@GRANT>
References:  <005401c5b191$79c9a6c0$6601a8c0@GRANT>

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In the last episode (Sep 04), Grant Peel said:
> I have serveral servers in a cage in Toronto, but I live 120 miles
> away.  Every once in a while, I will crash a box, or lock myself out
> of one of them (mostly just the dev box now!). Anyways, is it
> possible to daisychain the machines together using COM1 and COM2 so
> that no matter what, one can always get to a console? Or am I just
> wishing here...

If you run conserver ( ports/comms/conserver-com ) on all the machines,
you can even set it up so you don't have to remember which machine is
controlling which machine's console (it will chain to the correct
machine).  A multiport serial card in one master console box does let
you consolidate the logs on one machine though.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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