[lug] Serial Console

[Timothy C. Klein]

Hey all,

So does anybody have a working serial console in Linux?  I seem to have
one running, but it does not work.  I want to have machine A send its
console to the serial port (ttyS1) so that machine B can read that data,
and log in.  I actually got frustrated, and took away all
virtual console support, and VGA text console support from
machine A (it is running 2.4.12) in the kernel config,  and
directed the kernel and LILO to use ttyS1.  I have a getty
running on machine A on ttyS1 with no errors.  No warnings about being unable
to open a 1st console from machine A at boot time.  LILO, the
kernel, and init all think that ttyS1 is 9600n8, and so does
minicom on machine B. Yet still, machine B does not see anything
on the serial port.

I don't know what else to check.  I have read the serial-console.txt in
the kernel Docs, and the Remote-Serial-Console HOWTO, and followed the
instructions, it seems, but I can't get it to fly.  A search in goolge
brings up many hits on the Howto, but not much else.  Any ideas on what
might be getting me here?

I can ssh to this machine fine, but the idea is to perhaps eliminate ssh
from the machine, and only have console access to it, as this going to
be my new firewall.

Tim

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