Re: controlling installation from a serial terminal
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 12:22:17PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> One question: I would like to enable serial port logins after the
> second boot by adding the appropriate lines to /etc/inittab. I see
> these options:
>
> - Incorporate the change into the standard files. Would that
> represent a security problem or something?
> - Add code to dinstall or something to make the change if the
> console=/dev/ttyS? boot parameter was specified.
Have you seen utilities/dinstall/baseconfig.c: update_console_info()?
It probably does what you want.
> - dinstall makes the change, but asks the user first.
>
> I suppose I am stuck asking for a special kernel for this option.
> (The CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE probably would not hurt, but some some may
> not want CONFIG_SERIAL.) I would hope eventually to incorporate the
> necessary changes into the standard rescue floppy and base.tgz,
> though.
If the kernel is not much bigger than our default one, it's OK for me.
Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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