On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:56:16PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> It's been so long since I did this I can't even remember if I ever have.
> What's the hyperterminal equivelent in Linux.
>
> I.E I have linux box with stallion card. I connect consoles of several
> Solaris boxen to stallion card. How do I see the Solaris consoles on the
> Linux Box? I guess there is some kind of terminal equivelent to minicom
> to talk to the serial port when there is a console connected instead of
> a modem.
You're already running a "terminal", be it Xterm or console, so
all you need is something to connect to the serial line.
Traditionally this was done with "tip" or "cu", both of which
came with my system. Kermit has some nice properties, if you
want to get something fancier, and screen could probably do
something useful for persistance there too.
(Regarding serial consoles: I knew a microvax once that had a
paper teletype as it's console. I discovered, to my chagrin,
that turning the thing off (and so killing DTR, I suppose)
immediately shut the vax down.)
That reminds me: if you don't plan to interact with the consoles,
you could just cat their output to log files, and use less or tail
to have a look at them from time to time.
--
Andrew
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