On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:03, Steve Huff wrote:
> 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.
If it is obvious what the fence_ script is doing, you can probably
replace it completely with a kermit script where you can
chat equally well with serial or network connections.
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Les Mikesell
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