From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SOCjG-0004Cb-Fa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:50:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6174E0663; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com (mail-wi0-f169.google.com [209.85.212.169]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7964DE060F for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:50:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhm17 with SMTP id hm17so1410741wib.4 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:49:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zXYqVLvB1p+6TcuTl4yjvGcenyeipwjCP+mMHx4fhpQ=; b=li9aErxFg9hFPofn37VLM0pS7RqrcJ4dVgYvbb11eZz0ia0Kc+fRAjsW3fqZ7sNt9v WEmn7hRInAapqXWNbl2C0aGeAax52qSmJCeR0maLgu0HNsfFW+RpW/UhQaiTLRq8a/vJ BYeqvkvC+o4faw1TcUZL0SJ/3rJGOlxz+X67So8chBtBJXm4vd8ixPnoj4NFrEnDwlf6 00X2ZgJDQJZxJ8UMpS1xd3GljYnd2yVwWYbNDED+KAujdBhdbZlECWSmOv6IuaUnuEU5 CJ0wU8kJA4oxLC6Puo+v+oIBtv+DqABH0zcGBanOqYWtCqvNhrOSEEpq+IJV7yqI7o0n JTNw== Received: by 10.216.138.5 with SMTP id z5mr7184970wei.27.1335638999152; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.64] (93-97-149-234.zone5.bethere.co.uk. [93.97.149.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w10sm23237608wiy.3.2012.04.28.11.49.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4F9C3BD4.6070605@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:49:56 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Changing default serial-console definition in inittab References: <4F9AD792.9060603@gentoo.org> <4F9B3BEB.5050306@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4F9B3BEB.5050306@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 48b483ca-e6db-4764-9ec7-ccea5e0da9d3 X-Archives-Hash: 7272782d29b6f8d7c5c5d0ded1d59ba8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 04/28/2012 01:38 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 04/28/12 01:29, Diego Elio Petten=C3=B2 wrote: >> Since I've been configuring a couple of systems lately for >> remote access, which include configuring the serial console, I'm >> wondering if it would be a good idea to change our inittab so >> that the default (commented out) definition of the serial >> consoles is a bit more.. modern. >>=20 >> The current definition sets the console at 9600 baud, using >> vt100 emulation; I think most of us who configure it, do so at >> 115200 baud, and some prefer vt-utf8 over vt100 (the two are >> partially compatible as far as I can tell). >>=20 >> Of the two systems I've configured =C2=AD=E2=80=93 a SuperMicro server= which >> is the new tinderbox host, and an HP for work =E2=80=93 both have the >> default IPMI configuration for Serial-over-LAN set at 115200, and >> the HP also had VT-UTF8 by default for emulation (SuperMicro >> defaulted to vt100 but still allows utf8). >>=20 >> Comments? >>=20 >=20 > Leave the old defaults, add an example with the new options? >=20 > Since serial consoles are not default the user will have to > consciously enable them anyway, so there are no "defaults" >=20 > Have fun, >=20 > Patrick >=20 Yeah +1 on that - --=20 Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJPnDvUAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCJDwP/0Qn+OwDvZSEbMAto/DzAze0 Y13mXqOljzEg8nkaO7EODXbUdxE8PvVlRhMMyjOTBISFNWV4Y6Bv5jRfb3kx3M+j H8SZdh/SkpHQMyZVaBm2CN8abVpvrewPfyokaesIgDpJZxFYkvN/jP2fjMgZV+gs zLARFdch7yNWx5/a7Qe4GVzCsSP7xZXz/7m2u+jlnRYS+2d1fYjL0i17hqlO8XIC VvIGY7RfAdyFypL7hYa1v6PbBXpT+gUru6dtv0zRXunz/+yHMieq2+J5/JLeivuc K5hI5qRrlMxXcXQRXoTd7glqSjC69mKDJx34po0qiRuFxfIFep9a50X482cGxo2/ qfK+OXLznEjp9bAQdeZaajkXhlGup7HJhGRCZLTTH+9rQpQ5SEvHzh/iOThV4dDU XbW4CHZZxo6B/nNAvN77Wfc82tcXPssozU98Ri4jbZ4psXnanCmtf3MarEdL/EVX CJBa42W2N8FQreCOe0vRtQi8zvK6nuQv5qFVFLpTsct+VpBMHlcvBhb+p4KmFcxw pwtmWCICwoZTaGMO8pTFPCJgjL/YwMMaPFflsu6o6W8K1UQzGUANXaer98BFZavs 8WQ96/Jgl2CFcrZNTnyqqfQfRY6lFS7IO179eAO+49A66nX61FGSRODWnVFeGavK kQ4WxQOjTtPzw9xYgdjM =3DSDkT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----