On 10-Jun-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote: > >> > > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b >> > > (as >> > >> > Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I >> > have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which >> > do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process >> > leaves them. Dropping to DDB every time you reboot the other machine >> > is, uh, less than desirable behaviour. :-) >> >> Agreed, but this may be quite a project... doing a "cd ~bob" would be > > the general idea is that this wouldn't only register as a 'break' when > issud over the serial console, nowhere else...I know, some ppl use the > serial console as a regular login, but my experience is that its painfully > slow and good "for maintenance only" >
Agree also, my DG/UX (a SysV) sees a series of about twenty open-bracket, close-bracket "[]" on the console as a signal to jump into ROM. I've only had to use it once; the box was so far in the weeds that I couldn't get a login. <boggle> Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ? </boggle> Regards, --- Don Read dr...@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dr...@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message