hello folks!
here's my situation: i've got two WTI RPB+ remote power switches
(essentially a 5-port power strip which you can control via serial
interface to make each of the ports switch on and off
independently). they work fine; i plug a DB-9 cable into the back of
my machine, fire up minicom, and i have full control.
however, my eventual plan is to use these as fencing devices for a
small RHCS cluster i'm building, and so the fencing process will need
to be scriptable. RHCS wants to fence by invoking a "/sbin/
fence_<whatever>" script that uses Net::Telnet to connect to the
fencing device and then enters the commands.
so, it seems that what i need is a telnet server running on my CentOS
box that, instead of calling /bin/login when someone connects,
instead starts up a serial session (i'd prefer something more
transparent than minicom, if possible). anyone have any good ideas
on how to do this? i had been thinking of creating a user for this
purpose whose shell was /usr/bin/minicom, but i'm open to other
suggestions.
thanks,
steve
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