Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 01:21:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Hugo Varotto wrote: > > > > > OK, I don't want to make noise on this discussion, but I'd like to ask a > > very simple question. > > > > I do have a spare 486 next to me ( it was going to be trashed before I > > got hold of it ), and I'd like to implement a serial logger ( yes, I do > > also have a serial cable ) to debug some stuff that I'm working with ( > > I'm also having Oops and all those funny things that happen when > > something crashed hard in a kernel, and even when not, it's very > > difficult to keep track of all the printks to follow execution ). > > > > Could somebody point me to a place with instructions to how to set up a > > serial logger ? ( I've never needed one before, so I've never > > implemented one ). Hopefully, it will help me a lot. > > > > As I said, a simple question, thanks in advance > > Search for 'logserial' on www.freshmeat.net, that'll get you the > proggie to run under linux on the 486 to get the info from the serial > port. On the server modify your /etc/lilo.conf and add the line in the > appropriate place: > append="console=ttyS0 console=tty0" > You can check out Documentation/* for more info on that. Also > don't forget to compile support for console on serial port in your > kernel.
My apologies, it's disappeared from freshmeat, here's the direct link @metalab...
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/serial/logserial-0.3.tar.gz
Stephen
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