Re: [LUG] Headless Linux box

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Stanley wrote:
> If I boot a Linux box without monitor, keyboard and mouse plugged in,
> does the OS automatically put all output to the serial port a la
> Solaris?

Only if you configured it to do that I believe :(

Certainly wasn't the default, but some distro's might have thought of it
by now <doubtful - usually if you plug a serial mouse in you don't need
to reconfigure so I guess most don't - don't mock my mouse died at work
this week and all we have left is old serial mice in the mouse box
(cage?) - and some acorn(?) mice>.

> I've got a box in my garage roof which hasn't come back up since a <1
> min power cut the other day - rather than switching it off and bringing
> it into the house to find out what's going on, I'd quite like to find
> out why it's not come back up; and it'd be easier to take a laptop into
> the roof with a serial cable than a monitor ;)

How much would our VGA and keyboard cable extenders be worth to you ;)

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