Once upon a time, Gregory Gulik <greg@xxxxxxxxx> said: > As the server sits on a rack with often nobody around to reboot it if > necessary I was wondering what remote management capabilities are > available in Shrike??? For starters, find a good system board with serial console support in the BIOS. > Can the console be attached to a serial port for example? If you do a serial (text) install, you'll automatically get a getty started on the serial port at boot. Otherwise, you'll want: S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 115200 vt102 in /etc/inittab (and make sure that you boot to runlevel 3). You may want to comment out the mingetty lines to get rid of VGA logins. Then you'll want to add "console=ttyS0,115200" to your "kernel" line(s) in /boot/grub/grub.conf and have: serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 terminal --timeout=0 serial in there as well. You probably also want to add "ttyS0" to /etc/securetty so you can log in directly as root if needed. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
