On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Brian Chase wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Chuck McManis wrote:

> > Of course its possible. Use 'tip(1)' and look at the /etc/remote file. You
> > can specify tty lines that are hardwired to remote ports and then simply to
> > a 'tip foovax' or 'tip barvax', I've got a chain of systems where I end up
> > booting two vaxen and a sparcstation to talk to the serial port on my
> > wireless Access point :-)
>
> What do you use for the serial device special file, the /dev/ttyXX
> named ones?

Durh.  Well I'm feeling a bit silly right now.  The permissions on my
/dev/ttyXX devices were set incorrectly for some reason.  Having fixed
them, I can now use either of cu or tip.

In my case, I'm using the following cu command to access the console on
another system through the tty00 device:

   cu -l /dev/tty00

or, if you feel like being more explicit about it:

   cu -s 9600 --parity=none -l /dev/tty00

Reading the tip man page reminded me that I want to play with a UUCP
setup at some point.  Maybe after the 2.0 release gets sorted out :-)

-brian.