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[Chris]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 04), Grant Peel said:
> 
>>I have serveral servers in a cage in Toronto, but I live 120 miles
>>away.  Every once in a while, I will crash a box, or lock myself out
>>of one of them (mostly just the dev box now!). Anyways, is it
>>possible to daisychain the machines together using COM1 and COM2 so
>>that no matter what, one can always get to a console? Or am I just
>>wishing here...
> 
> 
> If you run conserver ( ports/comms/conserver-com ) on all the machines,
> you can even set it up so you don't have to remember which machine is
> controlling which machine's console (it will chain to the correct
> machine).  A multiport serial card in one master console box does let
> you consolidate the logs on one machine though.
> 

You can power them on and off remotely if that would help. (disclaimer: 
I haven't actually built one..)

http://vitsch.net/

and he has some other nice projects.

Chris