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by **lesterb..** » Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Hi. I need to run a headless system. I know that if I disconnect the
keyboard that /dev/console will be redirected to serial port A.
However, I need my serial ports to be doing, well, serial kind of
things. How can I force /dev/console to just log to a file instead?

Thanks,
Beth

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by **Rich Tee** » Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Quote:> Hi. I need to run a headless system. I know that if I disconnect the
> keyboard that /dev/console will be redirected to serial port A.
> However, I need my serial ports to be doing, well, serial kind of
> things. How can I force /dev/console to just log to a file instead?

No - at least not the way you mean (how would you type commands?).

You may have to get some additional, SBus (PCI) based serial ports.

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by **Greg Andre** » Sun, 04 Jun 2000 04:00:00

>Hi. I need to run a headless system. I know that if I disconnect the
>keyboard that /dev/console will be redirected to serial port A.
>However, I need my serial ports to be doing, well, serial kind of
>things. How can I force /dev/console to just log to a file instead?

No, I'm afraid not. As someone else suggested, add an
expansion board with more serial ports and move your
"serial kinds of things" to one of those ports.

Sun only sells 8-port expansion boards, which is probably
overkill for your needs. I've heard that another manufacturer
makes 4-port and perhaps even 2-port boards, but I don't remember
the name. Aurora?

-Greg
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by **lesterb..** » Wed, 07 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Thanks for the replies (even though they were not what I wanted to hear
:-) )

Beth

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