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From: vadik@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (Vadim Vygonets)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Break key on serial console - Ctrl-Alt-Del?
Date: 9 Apr 1997 12:53:11 GMT
Organization: Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Please help me with a new feature in BSDI 3.0.

In the BSDI Internet Server 3.0 Installation Guide and Release Notes,
section "What's New in BSD/OS 3.0", page 4, in the bottom, there is
written:

``The break key can be used on serial consoles in a manner analogous
to Control-Alt-Delete on the console''.

I RTFMed a lot, trying to find out how to do it, tried things like
`stty -brkint', and failed.  Please tell me how to do it!

The serial line entry in /dev/ttys is:
tty01   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown on secure

I'm connecting to it using the command `tip tty00' from another BSDI
machine, which is connected to the first one with an RS-232(7) serial
cable.  I can work OK, I can send all the signals I like, even break
(``~#'' (Tilde, Hash) in tip), but break doesn't work like
Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Sincere big thank you in advance,
Vadik.

--
Vadim Vygonets * vadik@cs.huji.ac.il * vadik@debian.org * Unix admin
If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected
abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was
the last time you needed one?  -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.