On 03/07/2011 05:40 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Björn Wetterbom wrote: >> I recently got the idea to use my nslu2 as a remote serial console for >> another machine. The idea is to be able to ssh to the nslu2 to see >> console output from the other machine. >> >> To do this, I figure I have to disable the getty on the nslu2. Is >> there anything else I should think about, or is it as straightforward >> as I think? > > Have you tried conspy? > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/conspy I don't think conspy solves the same problems as a separate device attached to the serial console does. For one thing, you need to be able to connect to the host through other means in order to be able to run conspy. With a serial console, you can still work on the machine even in situations where the network interfaces are hosed, the firewalling is broken, USB modules are unloadable, etc. You can also use a serial console to log and interact with boot-time issues, including the BIOS (on reasonable hardware) and the bootloader, and to get dumps of kernel oopses or crash listings. How do you see conspy as a replacement for this kind of work? --dkg
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