Everyone knows the console access is cu, with all the cu defaults.

I think you are going to confuse people, and there will be downsides.

Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote:

> In ILOM and presumable older ALOM as well, the default escape sequence
> to drop from serial back to ILOM is '#.';  this is very convenient since
> I'm always connecting to ILOM via serial or SSH, both use ~ by default.
> 
> This diff makes cu(1) use # for guest domains to mimic ILOM.  I'm always
> connected via serial or SSH to the primary domain, hence same pattern.
> 
> As `ldomctl console' is recent addition that is not yet included in the
> last release which still requires manual cu(1) usage, I see no reason
> not to "break" usage pattern.
> 
> Furthermore, let's print a brief reminder about the escape character:
> 
>       $ doas obj/ldomctl console guest1
>       Escape character: #
>       Connected to /dev/ttyV0 (speed 9600)
> 
>       {0} ok 
> 
> similar to what ILOM does (empty lines as they are printed):
> 
>       -> start -script /SP/console
> 
>       Serial console started.  To stop, type #.
> 
> 
>       OpenBSD/sparc64 (xxx) (console)
> 
>       login: 
> 
> 
> Feedback? OK?
> 
> 
> Index: ldomctl.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/ldomctl/ldomctl.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.21
> diff -u -p -r1.21 ldomctl.8
> --- ldomctl.8 30 Dec 2019 20:10:48 -0000      1.21
> +++ ldomctl.8 31 Dec 2019 18:27:26 -0000
> @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ e.g. 512M.
>  Using
>  .Xr cu 1
>  connect to the console of the guest domain.
> +The escape character is
> +.Sy # .
>  .It Cm delete Ar configuration
>  Delete the specified configuration from non-volatile storage.
>  .It Cm download Ar directory
> Index: ldomctl.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/ldomctl/ldomctl.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.31
> diff -u -p -r1.31 ldomctl.c
> --- ldomctl.c 28 Dec 2019 18:36:02 -0000      1.31
> +++ ldomctl.c 31 Dec 2019 18:33:09 -0000
> @@ -643,8 +643,9 @@ guest_console(int argc, char **argv)
>                   "ttyV%llu", guest->gid - 1);
>  
>               closefrom(STDERR_FILENO + 1);
> +             fprintf(stderr, "Escape character: #\n");
>               execl(LDOMCTL_CU, LDOMCTL_CU, "-r", "-l", console_str,
> -                 (char *)NULL);
> +                 "-E", "#", (char *)NULL);
>               err(1, "failed to open console");
>       }
>  }
> 

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