Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Beep in serial mode

[mailing d. <mai...@gm...>]

Maybe grep something in the file /proc/cmdline?

>From one of my "serial box":

# cat /proc/cmdline
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600 initrd=initrd.gz vga=NORMAL_VGA
BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz

Regards.

2010/10/6 mailing dl2 <mai...@gm...>:
> I also think that using inittab is not the best way to do that.
>
> Having the serial console enabled in inittab does not mean that the DL
> in "serial mode".
> I always enable serial acces to our DL boxes even if they are not in
> "serial mode".
>
> Anyway, I can still test it if you want.
>
>
> 2010/10/6 Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>:
>>  Yes I was hoping 'mailing dl2' might try it.
>>
>> There may be a better way to detect a serial console, if someone can
>> suggest it. I chose this because it is the way used in install-on-usb
>> (e.g. line 492), so it seemed likely to work.
>>
>> Dominic
>>
>> On 06/10/2010 13:31, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>>> I don't do serial mode, somebody else would have to test that.
>>> Isn't there a better way than grep'ing the inittab to detect a serial console?
>>>
>>> Heiko
>>>
>>> Quoting Dominic Raferd<dl...@ed...>:
>>>
>>>>    Heiko found a problem that the new beeps were being called for all
>>>> machines at boot time, not just those using serial. So please can I ask
>>>> you, as a serial user, to test the fix by downloading the latest script
>>>> in Mantis
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/devil-linux/view.php?id=90 and
>>>> trying it. The only practical difference is that the line
>>>>
>>>> if [ "`tty`" = "/dev/console" ]; then
>>>>
>>>> is replaced with
>>>>
>>>> if grep "^S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty" /etc/inittab>/dev/null; then
>>>>
>>>> Dominic
>>>>
>>>> On 06/10/2010 12:52, mailing dl2 wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> In the 1.4rc6 the new lines a commented in the /etc/init.d/beep scripts.
>>>>>
>>>>> So it does not work "out of the box".
>>>>>
>>>>> If you uncomment them it works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the modifications.
>>>>>> I added it to CVS.
>>>>>> I didn't get a chance to validate it myself yet, so I hope this works. ;-)
>>>>>> Heiko
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