Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 
> You have to have serial support turned on on the server obviously, do
> not turn on "support for console on serial port".  Believe it or not,
> this is not what you want.  Then you just need to add a line to your
> /etc/inittab to listen for it.  I don't have access to my home box right
> now so I couldn't tell you what it is, but look around the ldp - I'm
> sure they have something for that.

I've had that forever -- but I'm looking to have the serial port
treated as (or treated in parallel with) the system console.  Where
things like the three finger salute are recognised.

> There's many ways to *crash* the system, I'm just not sure any of them
> would be terribly useful to you.  What you need is a way to reproduce
> what's happening to your server

No, I emphatically do *not* want to reproduce it.  When it wedges,
I want to get a crashdump and reboot, so I can do a post mortem to
figure out what was doing the wedging.
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Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini  http://Golux.Com/coar/
Author, developer, opinionist      http://Apache-Server.Com/

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