Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:29:55 +0100 From: Chris <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminals Message-ID: <431C8093.8030606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050905000148.GD43293@dan.emsphone.com> References: <005401c5b191$79c9a6c0$6601a8c0@GRANT> <20050905000148.GD43293@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > You can power them on and off remotely if that would help. (disclaimer: I haven't actually built one..) http://vitsch.net/ and he has some other nice projects. Chris
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