Combining suggestions from several people. I installed screen This gives me an interactive screen that doesn't die when I disconnect the session. Then in the screen session: cu -l /dev/cua00 -t | tee /var/log/log.console I can then kill my ssh connction, connect again and see that the screen and cu processes are still running. I can tail -f /var/log/log.console to see new output from the console Bonus: I can reconnect to the screen session to issue interactive commands to get more debugging info out of the device.
Thanks all --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: misc <misc@openbsd.org> Subject: Re: Capture serial port output to a file Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:03:58 -0400 Marc Balmer wrote: > * Bruce Bauer wrote: >> Problem: >> OpenBSD 4.2 on i386 >> Serial port /dev/cua00 connected to the console port on a firewall. >> I need to catch all text output from the serial port to a file. >> The process doing this must survive a loss of network. >> The box is running headless. > > I could suggest you run cu in a screen session. I have used > > cu ... | tee logfile > > in the past, but there are possibly more elegant solutions Not sure it is more elegant, but I mention it just because I was happy to find out about it: script(1). It's in base. Nick.
