On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:06:58PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:51:03AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a terminal on one box to act like it's on > > another one. > > so is this basically trying to let you telnet to a device attached to a > serial port on a machine? Nope, other way around. It's a Wyse terminal hooked up as a serial device on Box A and I want it to act like it's hooked up to Box B. The obvious way of accomplishing this is to run 'telnet Box B' on the serial device instead of getty, I just need to figure out how to make it run there instead of on the VT that starts the process... (The terminals in question can't be connected to Box B directly because they're on serial hubs and the drivers for those hubs are buggy. Occasionally, a hub will drop off the net and refuse to come back until the controlling host is rebooted. Worse, trying to send data to a port on a crashed hub will sometimes lock up the host. Box B is our main database server, so needing to reboot it is Very Bad and having it lock up is Far Worse.) -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss