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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Use a Serial Console with Mac OS X Leopard Post 302262270 by joecassara on Wednesday 26th of November 2008 11:47:21 PM

11-27-2008

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Use a Serial Console with Mac OS X Leopard

I'm trying to use an old Commodore 128D as a terminal to access OS X's shell via a serial port. I've used 'screen' and 'zterm' to ensure the two machines are successfully interfaced.

Instructions for opening up the serial console on other Unix-y operating systems don't work with OS X Leopard. My serial port is /dev/tty.usbserial.

* Activating the serial console in /etc/ttys -- No luck

* /usr/libexec/./getty std.9600 /dev/tty.usbserial -- Seem to do nothing

* screen /dev/tty.usbserial -- The Mac and 128D communicate with each other, but a shell is NOT opened on the 128D

I've scoured the internet for a solution to no avail. All I've found are procedues for OS X Server, using SerialTerminalSupport, but I don't have Server.

Any ideas?

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remote-tty

REMOTE-TTY(1)						      General Commands Manual						     REMOTE-TTY(1)

NAME

       remote-tty - connect to a ttysrv serial console instance

SYNOPSIS

       remote-tty [-l LoginName] [-7] [-r] socket

DESCRIPTION

       remote-tty  is  the  frontend  for the remote-tty daemon. It is normally invoked using rconsole.  It connects to the backend ttysrv process
       over a Unix socket and allows the user to view what's happening on the serial console and interact with it.

OPTIONS

       socket The full path to the Unix socket for the ttysrv instance to connect to.

       -l loginname
	      Specify the login name to use. Defaults to the username if not specified.

       -r     Set restricted mode; don't allow changing of logging status, suspending of remote-tty or setting of line options.

       -7     Set 7bit mode.

SEE ALSO

       rconsole(1), remote-tty(1), ttysrv(8).

AUTHOR

       rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>. This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project
       (but may be used by others).

								   May 23, 2006 						     REMOTE-TTY(1)