On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:08 EST, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opined: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection > :> :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way > :> :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then > :> :restart the connection? > :> > :> best option is to recompile the kernel on the server to put the > :> console out to serial port (is this default in debian kernels? if not > :> what problems does it create, I always roll mine that way), then you > :> can hang a modem off the serial port and even if the networking on the > :> server breaks you can get in to try and fix it.
I do this. You don't have to do much more than put this into your lilo.conf file: append="console=ttyS0,9600n8" serial = 0,9600n8 and then enable the serial console in the kernel. Sometimes the line starts up at the wrong baud rate, and I have to wait for the getty to figure out what the right rate is, but it never takes more than a few seconds, and it hasn't been annoying enough for me to figure out what's really wrong.
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