[SunHELP] console servers

[DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR]

Don't know for your SUN hardware, but most of Sun Entreprise servers =
have a
keyswitch with a "secure" position.
In this mode, the server ignore any Stop-A or Break sent.

# /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v |grep Keyswitch
Keyswitch position is in Secure mode.


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Sema Global Services - AFM/DW/Pessac


	-----Message d'origine-----
	De:	James Fogg [SMTP:jfogg at vicinity.com]
	Date:	mercredi 20 juin 2001 15:39
	=C0:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
	Objet:	Re: [SunHELP] console servers

	On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, THOU SPAKE:
	> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:10:00PM +0200, Kevin Maguire wrote:
	> >=20
	> > modems, etc).  We did a test install of conserver
(www.conserver.com)
	> > on Linux which worked OK, but I think I'd prefer a hardware
based
	> > system, though I'm not sure why I think that :-)
	>=20
	Another reason I can think of for hardware based terminal
servers.....

	I use Linux boxen with Digi cards (not my choice). Every time the
dam OS goes
	down it sends a break to the console ports, causing all our machines
to stop
	and puke (not good in a production environment). Linux boxen do need
the
	occational bootage (sorry evangelists). Hardware solutions are
permanent.

	btw.. the break problem is a Digi issue (others do it too). There
are supposed
	patches from Sun for the issue, but we haven't got them to work yet.

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