From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 21 23:13:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EF81065769 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5490D8FC0C for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7LNDIP3032427; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:13:17 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Depo Catcher Message-ID: <20100821231317.GA52873@thought.org> References: <20100820213828.GB71642@thought.org> <20100821000740.GB72182@thought.org> <4C6FBA80.6050103@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6FBA80.6050103@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Adam Vande More , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: anybody onlist know about KVM stuff? 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: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:13:22 -0000 On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 06:37:36AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: > > > On 8/20/2010 7:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:45:11PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > >>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >>>of my three tower cases still linked by wires so i can "click-over" > >>>to each and use my one screen and keyboard, my server > >>>[ethic|ns1.thought.org] has a bad wire to my keyboard. so i really > >>>cannot do much on ethic. > >>> > >>>i've crawled down under 8 or 9 times and messed with various wires. > >>>that was extremely hard as fruitless. (things were|everything WAS) > >>>working fine until i added my battery backup. the guy who helped me > >>>with that 700-pound beast must have gotten something mixed up. because > >>>of his age (70's) and fraility i don't want to ask him to crawl around > >>>under there (&c). the two boxes that are working are impossible for me > >>>to pull out and look at. hopefully there are a couple freebsd types > >>>who rely on kvm wires to do serious work and can give me some clues. > >>> > >>/usr/ports/sysutils/synergy > >> > >>-- > >>Adam Vande More > > > > this looks very interesting, thank you. the catch is that it > > depends on X. i don't have X installed on the server. ..... > > > > ssh? > sure. for simple things. but i need to get X going to get my UPS set up. also, to properly upgrade things. i was upgrading via ssh and something broke. it took an hour of messing around to get ethic back up, fsck'd , and mail working. > > > > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org