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Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...



Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had
for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards..

(sorry for the lack of real response, I don't know how to do what you
want... so I will try to find out why you want it. :)

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:17:34AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> I've set up one of my headless machines to use ttyS0 as a serial
> console, and I've also set it up to run getty on that port after it
> finishes booting.
> 
> Using minicom from another machine, I can monitor the other machine's
> serial port and see that everything works fine.  After it boots, I can
> log in, etc, and I can even interact with LILO using it's "serial="
> option, but now I'd like to set it up so that the non-headess machine
> automatically puts its ttyS0 (the one connected to the headless
> machine's serial console) on one of its virtual terminals.  Is there
> an easy way to do that?
> 
> I've hunted around the HOWTOs and linux/Documentation/* and I can't
> find anything relevant.  Any help or RTFMs would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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