Greg Woods writes:
| I've used a script to start a detached "screen" session running "cu" for
| each port

screen can open tty devices directly without the need for cu or tip.
Just use ":screen /dev/tty00" etc.

| and workstation all in one).  For remote access you just SIGHUP the
| current owner of the current "screen" session and attach to it again
| from your remote session.  If you run the NOC's "screen" session in a

You can just use "screen -x" to allow multiple attachments to the same
screen process.

--jhawk