Re: remote management
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:49:36AM -0500, Bill White wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:08 EST, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>
> Opined:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote:
> > :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote:
> > :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection
> > :> :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way
> > :> :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then
> > :> :restart the connection?
> > :>
> > :> best option is to recompile the kernel on the server to put the
> > :> console out to serial port (is this default in debian kernels? if not
> > :> what problems does it create, I always roll mine that way), then you
> > :> can hang a modem off the serial port and even if the networking on the
> > :> server breaks you can get in to try and fix it.
>
> I do this. You don't have to do much more than put this into your
> lilo.conf file:
>
> append="console=ttyS0,9600n8"
> serial = 0,9600n8
>
> and then enable the serial console in the kernel.
You also need to make sure that serial support is compiled directly into the
kernel, not as a module. IIRC the default Debian kernels use modules for the
serial drivers so you may need to build your own.
your pal dave
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Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
dave_thayer@yahoo.com
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