On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:54:04AM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:55:56PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:25:41AM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
> > > Remember, this was on a Sun Netra T1.  They have serial ports but the
> > > serial ports are also LOMs so I don't know if that changes them in any
> > > way.
> > 
> > What's a LOM?
> 
> Lights Out Module.
> It's a very simple set of commands that run even when the machine is
> hung or powered off.  It means you can turn on/off or reset a box
> in any state, up to some hardware failures.
> http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/netrat/t200/faq.html#7
> 
> But it might also do "something" to the serial port, considering that's
> how you talkto it.

Hmm.  Would you run the ioctl Richard mentioned on /dev/console
and see what it returns?

Matt

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