Serial Console

[John Brookes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Rae [mailto:iainr at dcs.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: 14 July 2002 15:24
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: Serial Console
> 
> 
> It's also possible to do this slightly cheaper with serial port cards 
> and software like conserver (www.conserver.com)

I don't have any experience of that software, but I've been told the method
works well.

> 
> 
> You'll need to check that serial console support for the 
> kernel is built 
> in (I think this is the case with redhat) and have something like

Certainly RedHat has it built in. Other distros?

> >speed and terminal emulation to use. Often a line like,
> >"0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty" will do the trick (slap self 
> on wrist - 'man
> >mingetty', or summat, says not to use it for serial consoles).
> >
> 
> 
> we use
> T1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt100

Well I suppose it _could_ help to tell it which port to use ;)

> 
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Cheers,

John Brookes
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