From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 8 4:37:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pmpro.com (halberd.pmpro.com [207.238.28.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A4D914EDB for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 04:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@pmpro.com) Received: from carrot (carrot.pmpro.com [192.168.201.231]) by pmpro.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA27021; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:35:56 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990608073617.00fdb5d0@pop.pmpro.com> X-Sender: thomas@pop.pmpro.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 07:36:17 -0400 To: Kim Scarborough , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: Using tip to get on console In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:06 PM 6/7/99 -0500, Kim Scarborough wrote: >I have something of an unusual situation. My FreeBSD box is colocated in a >NOC that I don't usually have access to. If it crashes or loses network >connectivity, I'd like to be able to get on console remotely. A friend has >another FreeBSD box at the same place, and we both have accounts on each >other's machines. I thought maybe I could hook up a serial cable from his >serial port to console on my machine (and vice versa), and then if I need >to get on console on my machine, I can just log into his machine and use >tip cuaa0c or whatever to get on mine (and he can do the same thing on >mine when he's down). My questions are these: > >1) Does this sound like it will work? I have this sort of set up in use internally to reduce monitors in the core. Works fine except that FreeBSD occasionally drops the tip session on its face during a reboot. Usually a reconnect fixes the problem. I haven't had time to really pursue the cause of this. >2) How can I send a CTRL-ALT-DELETE (if my machine is really locked up) if >I'm using SecureCRT on a Windows box to log on to my friends machine and >hooked into my machine with tip? Is there an equivalent key combination >that I can map to one of the F keys? I'm afraid I don't know the answer to this one, but it's a good question. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message