From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Sergent To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: <20020515231553.GA16715@csociety.ecn.purdue.edu> References: <20020515153656.556D3199EC@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020515153656.556D3199EC@mail.cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Subject: [9fans] [OT] accidental Sun serial port halt Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:15:53 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 93cac3e2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:36:50AM -0400, anothy@cosym.net wrote: > // We did have to wire DTR high on the consoles to some machines > // like the Sparcs, because if our console server rebooted and DTR > // went down and up (or is it up and down), the Suns also rebooted. > > i'm curious: did you buy somethign to do this, or did you make the > needed adaptors yourself? i'm using consolefs (under 3rd edition, > with an Avenstar) right now, to manage a few SPARCs and several > PCs, and i've had that problem, as well. i've addressed this in similar > situations in the past with a sharp knife and soldering iron, but i > was wondering if there might be a more reliable (and less prone to > slicing into my hand) solution. No sharp knives needed if you are using Solaris: http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsrdb%2F20427 See also the kbd(1) man page. Hope this helps.