From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 9:21:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40A737B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [216.187.105.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D1DC43E3B for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0893F28 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:21:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:21:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: serial console com1 to com1 == login race condition? Message-ID: <3D53B3E5.5384.276CA6F0@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two remote boxes. My colocation hosts have strung a crossover serial cable from com1 to com1 on these boxes. The idea is that if I paint myself into a corner on one box, I can get access to it from the other box via the serial cable. But... I will need to set up serial consoles on each box in advance of a problem arising. But won't I get a race condition with each box thinking the other is trying to login? [1] - my apologies to those with whom I have already discussed this issue. -- Dan Langille I'm looking for a computer job: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message