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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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cyclades-devices

cyclades-devices(5)													       cyclades-devices(5)

NAME

       cyclades-devices - tables for driving cyclades-serial-client

DESCRIPTION

       The  cyclades-devices  file  supplies all mapping between Unix device files (/dev/*) and the addresses of serial ports of Cyclades Terminal
       Servers. It contains one entry for each serial port, with the following format:

       device:rastype:rasname:physport:type:options

       Note: A # character at beginning of line indicates a comment

       The entry fields are:

       devname
	      - A full pathname of the file that will be associated to the serial port. It must start with  a "/dev/" preffix.	Two naming schemes
	      may  be  used here: - devname does not exist, and will be linked to a free pseudo-tty. This is the default behavior of cyclades-ser-
	      cli.  - devname is the name of a valid slave pseudo-tty.	In this case, the '-t 1' option must be assigned in options field.  (Note:
	      this option is not supported by this release).

       rastype
	      - Terminal Server type: - prts, for Cyclades Pr302X/TS Terminal Servers.	- path, for Cyclades PathRAS Terminal Server.

       rasname
	      - Host Name or IP Address of the Terminal Server where the serial port resides.

       physport
	      -  Number  of physical port in the Terminal Server. If treated as the IP address associated with this port, in a IP-based addressing
	      scheme.

       type   - Server type that will be contacted to handle the serial port: - rtelnet, for Remote Telnet Server - socket, for Socket Server

       options
	      - Per-port specific options, passed to cyclades-ser-cli program.

EXAMPLES

       1. Device on a PR3020/TS Terminal Server pr3k Port 1, accessed through /dev/ctty01 device file name, using telnet protocol  (remote  telnet
       server)

       /dev/ctty01:prts:pr3k:1:rtelnet:

       2. The same device, but with an IP address pr3k_port1 associated to the serial port (IP-based port addressing)

       /dev/ctty01:prts:pr3k_port1:0:rtelnet:

       3. Device on a PathRAS Terminal Server pr3k Port 2, accessed through /dev/ctty02 device file name, using socket protocol (socket server)

       /dev/ctty02:path:pr3k:2:socket:

FILES

       /etc/cyclades-devices	This file

SEE ALSO

       cyclades-serial-client(1), cyclades-ser-cli(1)

															       cyclades-devices(5)