Re: Grub serial console question

2006-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:26:58 + David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 17 March 2006 11:56, David Goodenough wrote: > > Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines. > > > > The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not > >

Re: Grub serial console question

2006-03-17 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 11:56 +, David Goodenough wrote: > Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines. > > The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not > seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, nor a /etc/grub.conf. The > HOWTOs for s

Re: Grub serial console question

2006-03-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 17 March 2006 11:56, David Goodenough wrote: > Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines. > > The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not > seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, nor a /etc/grub.conf. The > HOWTOs for serial

Re: Grub serial console question

2006-03-17 Thread jmt
> Given the way that grub has been built for Debian unstable where > should these lines be? /boot/grub/menu.lst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Grub serial console question

2006-03-17 Thread David Goodenough
Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines. The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, nor a /etc/grub.conf. The HOWTOs for serial console all suggest that this is the right place to put the lin

Re: serial console question

2002-11-16 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:03:15PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey ladies > > what pam files do I have to modify to allow for a simple root shell when > connection via serial console. (and ONLY serial console) > Add the device name to the /etc/securetty file. I don't think that you have to mo

serial console question

2002-11-16 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey ladies what pam files do I have to modify to allow for a simple root shell when connection via serial console. (and ONLY serial console) this way I could connect and get # and be happy :^) thanks in advance for any help! Sunny Dubey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

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

Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
I've set up one of my headless machines to use ttyS0 as a serial console, and I've also set it up to run getty on that port after it finishes booting. Using minicom from another machine, I can monitor the other machine's serial port and see that everything works fine. After it boots, I can log i