Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-11 Thread Mike Nowlin
boggle Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ? /boggle Yup... Pretty dumb, isn't it? mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread Mike Nowlin
key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process leaves them.

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread Phil Homewood
Mike Nowlin wrote: Agreed, but this may be quite a project... doing a cd ~bob would be fun. :) You would pretty much have to implement some timing requirements, but I imagine that it could bulk up that section of the kernel pretty easily. Yep. I started to hack something like this into

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote: key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which do a very good simulation of a break

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread Tor . Egge
Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process leaves them. Dropping to DDB every time you reboot the other machine is, uh, less than

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread Don Read
On 10-Jun-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote: key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I have here have serial consoles attached to other machines

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Don Read wrote: boggle Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ? /boggle Suns do this. They sense the terminal power off as a break. One previous ork place had a bunch of rack mounted suns, sharing a serial console via a switch box.

ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
How hard would it be to add a kernel option that would enable an alternate key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as suggested by one user) came through on the console line, it would drop to the debugger? I guess the next question is would this even work once the

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-09 Thread Phil Homewood
The Hermit Hacker wrote: How hard would it be to add a kernel option that would enable an alternate key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as suggested by one user) came through on the console line, it would drop to the debugger? Would be most excellent if