Bug#745831: RFP: conman -- ConMan: The Console Manager

[Yao-Po Wang <blue119@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : conman
  Version         : 0.2.7
  Upstream Author : Chris Dunlap <chris.m.dunlap@gmail.com >
* URL             : https://code.google.com/p/conman/
* License         : GPL3
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : ConMan: The Console Manager

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users.

It supports:

    local serial devices
    remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol)
    IPMI Serial-Over-LAN (via FreeIPMI)
    Unix domain sockets
    external processes (e.g., using Expect for telnet / ssh / ipmi-sol connections) 

Its features include:

    logging (and optionally timestamping) console device output to file
    connecting to consoles in monitor (R/O) or interactive (R/W) mode
    allowing clients to share or steal console write privileges
    broadcasting client output to multiple consoles 

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blue119/Yao-Po Wang