Re: Port aliases

nope, every console entry in the cf file is opened and managed, so if
you point at the same device file or socket on a terminal server,
whichever console happens to come up first will grab the port and the
others will fail.

i'm kinda wondering, why do you want to reference the same port more
than once?  is it just so folks can say 'console host1' and 'console
host1_alias1' and get the same console?  if that's it, the idea is on
the TODO list (see the TODO file for the full list).  if not, what are
you trying to accomplish?

glad to hear things seem good aside from this.

Bryan

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:49:18AM -0600, Daniel Hanks wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Just found conserver yesterday, have it built and running. It's
> fabulous so far, but I have just run into one issue. I'm using
> conserver to serve up serial console sessions from our console host. I
> have found that I run into problems however, if I have more than two
> lines in conserver.cf that correspond to the same serial port. For
> example, if I have the following:
> 
> host1:/dev/ttyD001:9600p:/dev/null:
> host1_alias1:/dev/ttyD001:9600p:/dev/null:
> host1_alias2:/dev/ttyD001:9600p:/dev/null:
> 
> Trying to make a serial connection to this host via conserver results in lines like this going to the log:
> 
> [Fri Apr 18 09:29:35 2003] conserver (30590): ERROR: [host1] lost carrier (/dev/ttyD003)
> [Fri Apr 18 09:29:35 2003] conserver (30590): [host1] automatic reinitialization
> 
> Is having more than one line corresponding to a port possible?
> 
> Thanks for any input.
> 
> -- Dan
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