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Serial Console Applications?



On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:01:28AM -0400, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
> 
> >At the very low end, there's getty and relatives; somewhere in
> >the middle is Kermit.
> 
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding or not realizing how getty can be  
> used... Can a user log ssh into a machine and run "getty /dev/ttyS0"  
> from the command prompt? When they are done, how do they quit getty?  
> I think if they can quit getty, it would be a good solution for this  
> application.

No, my mistake -- I thought that I had seen a getty derivative
that allowed outbound connections, but I can't find it anymore.

cu is "call up", a very primitive terminal program. It's
probably what you want.

-dsr-




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