Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:55:37 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Terminals Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEEMFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050905081609.GB1378@gothmog.gr>
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I had a 4.11 box just freeze the other day (our news server) power-cycling got it running again, nothing else worked. It would be nice to pretend all OUR crashes end up in kernel panics but this isn't reality. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] >Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 1:16 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Grant Peel; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Terminals > > >On 2005-09-05 00:25, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: >> Grant Peel wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> 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 crash a box why would a serial console still work? > >It would still work if the kernel has KDB compiled in. I'm not sure if >this is what the original poster meant though. > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: >8/31/2005 >
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