su problem

[Sami Halabi]

Well,in8.1 & 8.2it worked fine for me, in 8.3 i got this problem.....

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> > Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > Hi Oliver,
> >  > I saw you had similar problem for console on 2010
> >  >
> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Serial-console-problems-with-stab=le-8-td3950684.html
> >
> > No, I don't think that the problem is related.  My problem
> > was with the serial console, while you don't have a serial
> > console attached at all (at least you didn't mention it).
> >
> >  > but the thread wasn't ended by recommendation or conclusions by you.
> >  >
> >  > did you solve that problem then?
> >
> > No, I came to the conclusion that the serial console support
> > in FreeBSD 8 was broken somehow.  So I removed the console
> > cable; it's running with an old VGA CRT as the console for
> > now.  Fortunately I require console access very seldom, so
> > I don't have to drive to that machine often.  It's still
> > annoying, but I didn't find a better solution; downgrading
> > to 7.x isn't an option.
> >
> just for the record, serial on 8.x works fine! the device naming has
> changed
> from sio to uart, and maybe some features. We use it on all our servers,
> even
> redirecting it where possible via ILO,IMPI,DRAC.  and is great for debuging
> or saving long trips :-)
>
> WARNING: control access to these devices, specialy since root can login
> on the console!
>
> danny
>
>
>


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Sami Halabi
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