Re: serial (console) connections between 2 boxes

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Brian wrote:
> Anyway, I'm looking at the Qube3 sitting next to it... is there a clever way 
> I could attach their two serial ports such that I could use one to monitor 
> the console of the other?  That would be useful.

You can throw the cable, but then you need to see which one runs getty 
(edit /etc/ttys), and which one connects to it (running cu, kermit, 
whatever). This doesn't work bi-directional as far as I understand.


 - Hubert