On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Minicom can work pretty well if you just set your profile to 9600 and the > right serial port. Then, I just alias minicom to 'minicom -o' to keep it > from initializing my modem when I run it. Then you just have to make sure > all your serial devices are set to 9600 and be consistent there. Great info, neil! I'll give it a shot and post any problems here. > > From a hardware perspective, a good serial console server can be a very > easy > way never to have to think about this again. I've got an old Xyplex at > work, > but I've used much newer nicer ones in the past, and they are indispensable > for "local console" access from everywhere without having to plug and > unplug > stuff manually. > -N Yeah, those are nice, but all our stuff is collocated with servers that already have serial ports, so it seems kind of silly to spend the money for 3-4 serial consoles when 10-20 servers/serial-ports are already sitting right there. =) Still, good tip. __________________ Alan Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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