[OpenIndiana-discuss] console local and via SOL

2015-01-13 Thread s...@freudiger.nl
Hello I am pretty new to openindiana and am working on a custom solution to use serial over lan (SOL). I have the serial port redirected to Lan interface and am able to connect to it via the BMC/IPMI -feature of the mainboard. The output of /dev/console can be chosen by eeprom console=ttya and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] termcap

2015-01-13 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Termcap vs terminfo has always been a bit of a mess. I believe that terminfo has always been standard on Solaris since 2.1. The best way to diagnose the problem is to run truss and look to see what it tries to open and in what order it looks for files. This is useful for many such problems.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] console local and via SOL

2015-01-13 Thread s...@freudiger.nl
wow, that was fast! this did the trick: $svcadm enable vtdaemon $svcadm enable console-login:vt2 thank you! Regards, sam On 13-01-15 10:23, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote: Hi, I guess you should try to connect to local console even it it is redirected to serial (I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] console local and via SOL

2015-01-13 Thread Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator]
Hi, I guess you should try to connect to local console even it it is redirected to serial (I guess if you enable VT, you SHOULD be able to use it). Also check: a) http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.6+Remote+Console b) if VT is/are enabled (on my OI box): $ svcs -a | grep vt online

[OpenIndiana-discuss] termcap

2015-01-13 Thread s...@freudiger.nl
Hi, one more question came up, why are my changes in vim /usr/share/lib/termcap not effective, is there a command that I need to run for it to work? (I want to change the number of colons and lines for some terminal type). Or is this the wrong way to do it and I need to compile the changes