Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-16 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > I know what you want. You want to run "minicom" in a "screen" session. > Start it once, detach it whenever you want, attach it later. Hmm. Interesting. I've never used screen. I'll have to see how it works. I was worried about security, but

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought > >the BIOS would have had a problem with that ... > > Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you h

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought >the BIOS would have had a problem with that ... Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you have the serial console support compiled in, the kernel will dete

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'd really like is some little >daemon on the machine connected to the headless machine that watches >and logs the serial port output, and that you could connect to >whenever you wanted (access would be exclusive) to co

RE: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Paul McHale
inittab/serial console question... Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had > for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards.. The serial console is to handle cases where the machine c

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had > for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards.. The serial console is to handle cases where the machine can't even boot to the telnet or ssh stage. This machi

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards.. (sorry for the lack of real response, I don't know how to do what you want... so I will try to find out why you want it. :) On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:17:34A