Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:48:30 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finally :) Message-ID: <20001205204830.E346@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012042221270.17712-100000@mail.cafes.net>; from diz@cafes.net on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:55:58PM -0600 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012042221270.17712-100000@mail.cafes.net>
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:55:58PM -0600, Mike Eldridge wrote: > I finally got my Multia up and running FreeBSD 4.1 after I got the serial > cable I needed in the mail today. > > I feel lost now. I have grown so incredibly used to Linux over the past 4 > years that everything feels out of place. The whole master.passwd/vipw > thing screws with my head. :) Linux does it wrong.. :-) > I want to put the alpha's serial console on my linux box's tty11, but I > can't quite figure out how I'd do that. The getty runs on the receiving > end, so I can't just throw a getty up on tty11 cause it would throw a huge > hissy fit whenever it received the login banner from the other side. I'm > sure it would be quite humorous to watch that for about 5 seconds. Disable the getty on the 'outgoing' connection side. I'm not sure how Linux does that, /etc/inittab maybe? > > simple) that I can throw in my inittab to access the alpha's console > from this linux box's console. I think it would be pretty nifty to have > tty11 actually be a terminal for a remote machine. On FreeBSD I use 'tip' > Now that I think about it, serial's pretty rough. I'd be much better off > logging into the box via telnet/ssh than putting up with a < 112Kbps > serial link. Sure! > I wonder how long it would take a pair of multia 166s to render Titanic. Approx one millenium I guess. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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