> I'd be shocked to find anyone has expect scripted > sulogin (possibly > excepting some test code here inside Sun to test > failure scenarios, > although even that seems doubtful). > > When sulogin is invoked, the machine is typically > already at the point > of failure, and its hard to imagine people building > scripts around > recovery actions. (You'd have to look at "why" the > machine is in single > user, and determine a course of repair action, etc. > That probably means > arsing the rest of the console output, not just the > login prompt. I > doubt there's any software in use that is > sophisticated enough to do > this without the help of an administrator.)
Given a serial console connected to another system, I wouldn't be particularly surprised at almost any sort of automated interaction. Software capable of monitoring many systems in that manner, or (given site-specific extensions) even interacting with them, has if memory serves existed since I think the mid 80s if not longer. For any site with such software, changing the default behavior under an otherwise unchanged configuration (not taking specific advantage of the new capability) even on OS upgrade would be...tedious, although they'd probably have some other adjustments to make anyway. This message posted from opensolaris.org
