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<meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes: |
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> I want to run programs, which insist on haveing a terminal |
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> to write their status to and which are writing files which |
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> their results on a headless computer (beaglebone). |
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> Is there any neat trick to accomplish what I am trying to do here? |
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> mcc |
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Hello meino, |
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Back when dinosaurs (like me) roamed the halls of academia, |
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we use to send things out the serial console, to something |
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like a VT100 "dumb terminal" both the video and the keyboard |
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would attached to the computer's serial port. You could just |
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power down the display for weeks at a time, and power it up |
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to see what activity was currently being piped to the standard |
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output..... |
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If you can find an old "VT100" or ibm or other brands (can't remember the |
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names, but dec, HP and many others made them" that will work. |
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I've also have a home built "serial data analyzer" that plugs |
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into a serial port, for a blazing 19,200 buad 2 line ascii serial |
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terminal, but it is buried somewhere in my lab..... |
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I have even piped things out one seria console l port (on a headless system) |
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into the serial port of another pc (usually crossing 2 & 3 pins |
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in some from of a "null modem". In fact at one point I has many serial |
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ports on one pc brining in console outputs from many headless Sun servers, |
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for logging. Some "night-mare" I inherited as a graduate student, |
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back when the gasses where coalescing...... |
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane...... |
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hth, |
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James |
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[1] http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Serial/serial-console.html |
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