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From: tr@jcricket.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Sun 3 console question
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 14 Mar 89 03:50:21 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 196, message 4 of 16

In Sun-Spots-Digest Volume 7, Issue 163, message 14 of 18, On the
subject of "Sun 3 console question", casey@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Casey
Leedom) writes:

> We use standard ascii terminals as the consoles of all our file servers.
> After the systems have been up for a while, the terminals lock up and we
> haven't figured out how to break them out of that mode.  This happens
> reliably on two 3/180s and a 3/280 running SUN OS 3.4, and two 3/280s
> running SUN OS 3.5 on a whole variety of terminals.
>...

You should use a terminal that doesn't have a lock mode or that you can
unlock with a certain key sequence.

Or better yet, ground DTR on the serial link so that the Sun always thinks
that the terminal is always on, even when you power it off.

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