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From: fred smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
Subject: Re: how to run kermit on tty2 ?
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:24:12 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In comp.protocols.kermit.misc Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
: In article <38ab4350.609457834@158.54.6.109>,
: George Dau <gedau@isa.mim.com.au> wrote:
: : I have a Linux box set up just to be a serial console for a Sun box.
: : I start up kermit to connect to serial A and display the Sun
: : console.
: :
: Which Kermit do you start up? The current version is 7.0:
I found a program recently (on freshmeat, I think) named 'forktty'. This
program allows you to spawn a child process and have it run on a tty
other thanthe one the parent process is on. Sounds like you could use
it as a launcher to bring up a kermit on whatever tty you want.
E.g., I use it on my home Linux box to fire up the Distributed.net RC5
client on /dev/tty12 whenever the system boots.
Fred
: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
: earlier releases like 6.0 (1996) don't work well on Linux versions
: that came out subsequently.
: : I now have a second Sun, and would like to connect that to serial B.
: : I can
: : kermit -l /dev/ttyS1 -c
: : and display it just fine, but I'd like to do this from /etc/inittab
: : so it comes up automatically when the Linux "Sun Console" is
: : re-booted.
: :
: : Thay way I don't need to have any logins enabled at all on the Linux
: : box.
: :
: : Running the kermit from /etc/inittab with "respawn" means that if
: : the kermit exits, it restarts, so this is a great solution for
: : a console box.
: :
: You can also include the -S ("stay") command-line option so it doesn't
: exit. You can also log the session, etc etc.
: : All I need to do is work out how to get the second kermit monitoring
: : /dev/ttyS1 and having its display and keyboard entry on /dev/tty1
: :
: : (kermit -l /dev/ttyS1 -c >/dev/tty1 displays on the second screen, but
: : no keyboard entry).
: :
: It's an interesting idea. If you have a way of invoking C-Kermit that
: redirects both the standard input and standard output to/from tty1, it
: might work.
: Follow up to kermit-support@columbia.edu with details/problems, to spare
: the newsgroup. But if you do get it working, it's worth another posting.
: - Frank
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