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doofus
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 Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: sparcstation serial consoles |
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I understand that if no keyboard is present on a sparc, it will fall
back to ttya as an i/o console.
Is it possible to have serial console access simultaneously with a
proper keyboad console attached? Even on workstations it would be
useful to have remote console access for emergency situations.
Thanks. |
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Chris Cox
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: Re: sparcstation serial consoles |
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doofus wrote:
| Quote: | I understand that if no keyboard is present on a sparc, it will fall
back to ttya as an i/o console.
Is it possible to have serial console access simultaneously with a
proper keyboad console attached? Even on workstations it would be
useful to have remote console access for emergency situations.
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My initial thought is yes... but I've never configured it so that
both the serial console and the graphical head were THE console.
Maybe it's easy.. maybe not...
Certainly you can run a getty on the serial line though... so you
can at least log in through it. That, I know you can do.
I would probably opt to have the console on the serial port
if I had a choice. It's just a bit more flexible with regards
to what you can do with it (unless you just can't live without
a fat gui). |
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doofus
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: Re: sparcstation serial consoles |
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On 7 Feb, 22:19, Darren Dunham <ddun...@redwood.taos.com> wrote:
<some snipping>
| Quote: | Is it possible to have serial console access simultaneously with a
proper keyboad console attached? Even on workstations it would be
useful to have remote console access for emergency situations.
Keyboard attached, yes. Keyboard console, no.
Hmm. I don't understand. Is it not the case that if a keyboard is
attached then that's the console, no choice?
No, untrue.
You can have a keyboard attached (and used as a system terminal), but
have the console be on ttya.
You can attach a keyboard and use it on the machine while Solaris is
running for normal user logins, but you cannot use it as a console if
ttya is the console.
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But wait - there's more... I'm still jiggered here (with no apologies
to B Wright ;-)
I tried it:
input-device = ttya
output-device = ttya
Keyboard and monitor connected are connected but unusable sfter
resetting.
All I'm trying to acheive here is to have a normal desktop graphical
login at screen and keyboard (don't care if Stop-A doesn't work), and
the console device on ttya (or ttyb - don't care about that either as
long as I can get at it from four thousand miles away).
Obviously I'm missing something - probably obvious. Can't see what it
is though on my blank screen. |
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