Terminals

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

I had a 4.11 box just freeze the other day (our news server)

power-cycling got it running again, nothing else worked.

It would be nice to pretend all OUR crashes end up in kernel
panics but this isn't reality.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida at ceid.upatras.gr]
>Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 1:16 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Grant Peel; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Terminals
>
>
>On 2005-09-05 00:25, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>> Grant Peel wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 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 crash a box why would a serial console still work?
>
>It would still work if the kernel has KDB compiled in.  I'm not sure if
>this is what the original poster meant though.
>
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