Mailing List Archive by Gossamer Threads http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/ en-us (c) Gossamer Threads Inc. All rights reserved. 25 Nov 2009 06:36:13 -0800 120 75 23 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/images/lists/rss_logo.jpg Hi, I have seen the following behavior during my checks to see if we can use conserver. I perform the following commands: 1] Open a read/write cons 20 Nov 2009 02:16:10 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1531 HI, We are using conserver to handle the consoles in our cluster, everything worked perfect until several months ago when our cluster is growing l 17 Nov 2009 23:29:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1525 Hi, We've now using conserver with over 200 consoles all logging to one conserver server. It all works really well except that sometimes combined 09 Nov 2009 07:14:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1523 Hi, Does Conserver support LNXI Iceboxes? 05 Nov 2009 08:51:53 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1521 hi, im looking to pass ctrl+z to a server - console man page says 1) escape sequence (mine is default 'control-E c'') 2) then type \ooo where ooo i 22 Oct 2009 10:43:48 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1519 Hi, Attached is a one-liner that fixes a segfault in 8.1.17 when compiled against libgssapi2-heimdal on Ubuntu Jaunty. Looks like a typo? Andras 16 Oct 2009 04:30:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1517 Hi, Is it possible to override the initcmd specified for a console in the conserver.cf file, so that varying scripts can be run as required when the 16 Oct 2009 00:19:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1513 Hi, I'm forwarding this patch on behalf of Nicolas De Metz-Noblat who has been using conserver-8.1.15 to handle the consoles of ~1000 VME Single Boar 12 Oct 2009 01:43:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1509 I will be out of the office starting 2009-09-28 and will not return until 2009-10-12. If you have urgent thing, Guang Cheng Li is my backup. 09 Oct 2009 13:07:01 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1508 Another patch we have been carrying that hasn't made it up to conserver. - Add basic error handling - Rename the current restart reload - Implement a 05 Oct 2009 03:16:16 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1505 With the release of conserver-8.1.17 I went back through our patch queue and I found this minor patch that has not made it's way into conserver. Eric 05 Oct 2009 03:10:34 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1504 All-- Apologies in advance if these have been asked-and-answered but with Googling and experimenting I haven't been able to find a configuration yet 30 Sep 2009 05:10:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1500 The spec file included with conserver 8.1.17 references a defaults file that's supposed to be in contrib/redhat-rpm/conserver.defaults but that file 29 Sep 2009 11:10:42 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1495 After an incredibly long delay, version 8.1.17 is finally out. Sorry for both the length of time and any missing features I may have promised an indi 29 Sep 2009 08:37:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1494 I recently tracked down a nasty conserver stall to the fact that conserver opens connections to the console program and leaves the socket in blocking 24 Sep 2009 22:48:35 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1492 Hi, Shouldn't 'console' return with an exit status other than 0 if the connection failed? Andras _______________________________________________ use 21 Sep 2009 08:37:34 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1490 Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has a patch to use Kerberos5 tokens for authentication between the client and the server? I can use the appropriate pass 16 Sep 2009 08:33:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1486 Is it possible to use variable substitutions/interpolations in conserver.cf? I'm looking to shorten the numerous console definitions I have by utiliz 16 Sep 2009 05:18:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1484 I had an event where the network conserver and my terminal servers are on was down for a period of time. During the outage conserver could not connect 02 Sep 2009 10:30:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1483 Hi, Is there a way to make conserver listen on a limited number of ports only (instead of opening random ports)? The manual page talks about the 's 19 Aug 2009 07:23:01 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1478 Hello, I am testing a ssh conserver connection to a cisco terminal server attached to the serial ILOM of a Sun M4000 sparc server running solaris 10. 05 Aug 2009 04:58:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1477 Hi, I'm running conserver on a host that uses LDAP for the user database, and sometimes we have problems with that. However, shouldn't conserver simp 22 Jun 2009 07:39:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1473 Hi, I'm having some memory related problems on linux 2.6 x64. One of our conserver handles 1700 consoles, most of which are 'exec' types. 1300 use 'i 11 Jun 2009 08:13:34 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1469 Apologies for those who feel this is an OS problem, and you're likely right. That, and/or a "stupid user trick". I was running NetBSD 4.0_STABL 04 Jun 2009 19:48:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1459 First let me start by I am new to conserver and I have it setup and working with the console client. But is there a way to setup conserver so I can ss 30 May 2009 20:50:21 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1455 I know it's a loaded question .... but given I'm running conserver on a DUAL 3.2GHZ Xeon server with 4GB of memory ... how many consoles could I expec 28 May 2009 11:36:48 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1446 I was looking to make a modification to the code and wondering if you can tell me where to start looking ..... I want to add an option so that EVERY L 08 May 2009 12:32:13 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1442 I find myself in a situation where I must access a restricted network via a proxy server. Conserver here is a "normal" setup... many local (in-buil 17 Apr 2009 10:47:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1437 Hello-- I want to set up conserver to manage consoles in a hierarchical fashion within a cluster environment....... I'm not sure if conserver support 19 Feb 2009 10:02:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1436 Dear Conserver users/devs, I manage a largish (about 9k nodes, constantly growing) remote console installation here at CERN. Clients are, for the sma 17 Nov 2008 04:47:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1430 I stumbled upon conserver, and before I go through the work to compile it and setup a machine for it, I was wondering if someone can confirm this for 29 Oct 2008 13:19:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1427 I tried to make an image for diskless installation. When I installed the conserver into the /install/netboot/rhels5.2/ppc64/service/rootimg, I found 12 Oct 2008 05:16:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1424 Sorry if this is a bit of an obvious question but I could not find it in the man page. How do you set the data bits on a conserver console. __________ 11 Sep 2008 13:55:07 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1421 Getting this message: 127.0.0.1: unauthorized command ... when I attempt to disconnect myself from a console when logged into another SSH session. ( 09 Sep 2008 14:52:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1417 I can't find this anywhere in the FAQ, and google is choking on the terms 'conserve' and 'isme'. Frustration level is high... my /etc/conserver.cf 09 Sep 2008 13:17:42 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1414 If anyone is interested, I've just posted an entry on my blog showing how to use conserver with HP blades and iLO. With my config and script, conserve 07 Sep 2008 11:59:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1411 This is what I've been asked to set up: "[ A way to ] .. SSH to the server and then run script to get a console session on a connected device OR ssh 04 Sep 2008 14:14:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1409 Does anyone have a config snippet for connecting to the console of a pSeries LPAR? How do you handle authentication with the IVM/HMC? Thanks, Nate 03 Sep 2008 06:04:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1407 I'm trying to setup conserver to act as a gateway for a number of devices that only have telnet connectivity. What I'd like to do is something this: 04 Jun 2008 15:16:32 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1405 Hello, Recently a few of our servers have been experiencing very strange characters when connecting via conserver. It looks like this: Ìoçiî iîcorr 10 Apr 2008 05:39:10 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1400 Hi, man: [...] autoreinit Allow this console to be automatically reini- tialized if it unexpectedly goes down. If the 02 Apr 2008 06:57:24 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1398 Hi all. Still pretty new at this and at system administration. I have 2 Opengear CM4148 boxes which appear to be happily configured. One has rela 03 Mar 2008 13:03:10 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1397 Here is a patch that I'm working on. It's not complete, but it works. What works: - authentication against "host" principals. - built w/o openssl 07 Feb 2008 11:36:05 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1392 Recently, we restarted conserver, (Killed the parent, waited for the children to exit) - and then started conserver again. Somewhere between shutting 06 Feb 2008 03:00:41 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1387 Hi, I browsed the documentation once again - unsuccessfully is there a way to down a particular set of consoles? I only found the syntax to down *all 24 Jan 2008 00:03:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1382 Hey folks, I have a new conserver installation that I'm doing and I'm having a weird issue. What appears to be happening is that the correct pass 18 Jan 2008 12:25:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1377 I have been struggling for several days trying to get a new instance of conserver to talk to a relatively new Opengear CM4148 terminal server. I hav 17 Jan 2008 14:41:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1372 Greeting conserver users, As the subject line states I'd like to know whether or not conserver is multi-threaded. From what I've seen I think it is 16 Jan 2008 14:14:02 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1370 I just solved my own problem, and I thought to share it: The problem was incorrect permissions on the config file console.cf. I have defined a ma 15 Jan 2008 14:44:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1369 Conserver, I am missing something simple here, I think. I have setup 3 console servers, and they each work fine, if the user is root. If I attem 14 Jan 2008 14:21:16 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1366 I agree with John, that problem should be mitigated by the controlling (script-sending) host. But, it would be nice if there were a way to tell a C 13 Dec 2007 16:05:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1363 Hi all Is it possible to set a "send line delay" on conserver. This option allows the user to set the number of milliseconds that conserver pauses 08 Dec 2007 08:32:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1361 Hi there. I know this question has been asked before in numerous forms, and there is some information in the mailing list archives et al regardin 18 Nov 2007 09:20:35 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1355 Is there a way to have two entries point to the same physical port? At my current employer, a lot of servers and network gear are physically install 14 Nov 2007 08:28:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1352 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello In the past I used portmaster as my terminal server. To connect to a device i had to use: telnet 13 Nov 2007 07:30:36 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1351 I am having a few issues with conserver in gusty gibbon ubuntu. If I start the service with conserver -p 782 everything works. If I st 04 Nov 2007 03:52:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1350 The attached patch fixes a bug in conserver 8.1.16 causing console to send garbage to the server if read(stdin) returns -1. This occurs if you run co 25 Oct 2007 13:20:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1349 I'm sure there must be a limit somewhere. If nothing else there are only about 64K tcp ports, but I'm wondering of there is some much lower limit that 22 Oct 2007 09:55:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1345 I'm new to this list and to conserver. I have just set up an OpenGear CM4148 console server attached to a single conserver client machine running R 24 Sep 2007 13:00:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1341 Hi All, I am new to this group and also to confguring console servers. We have got a Cyclade TS 800 box and we want to configure that to access the 17 Aug 2007 02:26:55 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1330 I am trying to setup conserver to provide access to the consoles of domUs on a Xen server. Here is what I think should work for conserver.cf: default 11 Aug 2007 10:49:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1328 Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way we can use telnet with conserver?? Hemang 10 Aug 2007 16:10:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1326 Hello everyone-- Quick question ... is there a way to prevent users altogether from turning off logging via the client? TIA! Ben-- ________________ 10 Aug 2007 07:53:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1320 Hello, We just started using conserver, and there are a few people who want to be able to state where to log file every time they connect to the con 09 Aug 2007 13:38:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1318 Guys, I'm running a minor conserver setup, the funky thing is that it's spread out across four different sites. By that I mean I have the master ser 09 Aug 2007 11:54:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1317 Hello, how about adding an conditional statement around ^Ecd ? I do not want users to down a console at all. Something like OLD: group.c Line 3620: 02 Aug 2007 02:30:35 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1316 Hello, if we use conserver on a let's say Linux server, and connect the targets to some Lantronix or Lightwave or Thinklogical console servers, we ca 01 Aug 2007 05:44:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1311 We are testing conserver here with Cycaldes ACS32's, connecting consoles via telnet. We have been experiencing problems with the terminal server somet 26 Jul 2007 03:03:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1308 We have a lot of consoles here but for 95% of the time they have no-one logged in, so we want all connected consoles traffic logged with timestamps, t 26 Jul 2007 02:55:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1307 I have put together a patch that adds power control to conserver. I have to say that I'm not really a C programmer and I'm sure this will need to b 29 Jun 2007 11:44:46 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1297 Hi, The hostname of my conserver is 'consrv'. I run conserver using '-p 33000 -d'. I always get the following error: | ERROR: getservbyname(conserv 26 Jun 2007 02:08:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1294 Hi! We have Cyclades ACS installed, accessible via SSH, and I'd like to centralize the connection point to them via Conserver instead of the current 17 Jun 2007 03:05:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1292 Hello, I'm trying to write a Perl program which (among other things) has to communicate with a conserver. I dislike the idea of calling console for th 06 Jun 2007 00:46:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1291 I ran a second copy of conserver (specifying a 2nd config file and port#) to test some things and I discovered the hard way that there is no way choos 04 Jun 2007 14:24:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1290 Hey there. I was just noticing that there is no way to set ownership or permissions of sockets when using --with-uds. The server creates the soc 04 Jun 2007 14:09:20 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1289 Hello. I'm trying to get conserver to talk to our Sun Fire X2100 eLOM consoles via ssh, and used the trick described on http://www.laen.org/2006/10/0 01 Jun 2007 06:40:13 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1279 Hi, This isn't a conserver spacific question, but I figured this may be a good place to get an answer. I'm using a digi terminal server to connect 03 May 2007 12:36:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1277 Bryan, My boss is asking probing questions about the conserver service during the planning phase of upgrading to the newest version of conserver. 02 May 2007 15:44:32 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1275 In looking through the conserver.cf man page I see you specify that certain consoles are mastered on another server with something like: cons 26 Apr 2007 08:53:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1272 Hi, I have forged some exec scripts for conserver, e.g. for use with ipmitool SOL. I would like to make them available to the community. Is there som 17 Apr 2007 03:29:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1270 Not too many changes this time, but the bug fix is certainly important. Enjoy! version 8.1.16 (Apr 10, 2007): - added 'replstring' substituti 10 Apr 2007 14:54:24 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1269 I've been setting up conserver to provide console access and logging for VMware machines running Linux, using the uds console type and a virtual seria 08 Apr 2007 12:53:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1266 Hello all, I just joined this list, I hope this is the appropriate address to use for troubleshooting questions, and if not, please let me know. I h 09 Mar 2007 10:45:01 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1264 Hello, I am using conserver 8.1.14 and a script to reset systems (by taking away their power). To make sure no one can reset a system someone else is 06 Mar 2007 03:18:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1260 ### set up global access default full { rw *; } ### define some terminal server specifics # we set portbase and portinc so we can reference the po 01 Feb 2007 17:13:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1259 Hello, I am unfamiliar with the application and have reached the point of creating a conserver.cf file. I have to use the software to get a Linux s 01 Feb 2007 17:04:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1258 Hello, I have a setup where conserver runs on a machine with xoxa 8 x serial card. Moxa serial ports are connected to linux machines doing serial co 19 Jan 2007 18:02:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1253 i've gone ahead and copied a console-8.1.15.exe binary up to http://www.conserver.com/console-8.1.15.exe (also the ftp directory). you'll need to get 18 Jan 2007 09:01:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1248 Hi, I'm again! Can nobody help me with my problem?! I have already tried to reinstall the pkg, but ^Ec is still not working on Telnet! (running co 17 Jan 2007 00:30:08 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1241 Hi, I'm new to conserver and actually have a little problem with the escape-sequence! I changed the escape-sequence while I was connected to a conso 11 Jan 2007 02:35:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1239 I'm running a fairly large installation with conserver (1100+ console). Doing a console -u will print out a bunch of consoles, but at some points, 05 Jan 2007 11:52:05 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1231 I thought I'd finish off 2006 by releasing 8.1.15. I hope everyone has a great 2007! Enjoy! version 8.1.15 (Dec 31, 2006): - protection aga 31 Dec 2006 20:58:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1230 I recently rebuilt my conserver package for Solaris-10 to use SMF instead of [/etc/init.d/conserver and /etc/rc3.d/Sxxconserver]. If you want the SM 13 Dec 2006 14:04:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1228 Conserver users, I am about to configure Conserver 8.1.14 on Solaris. I will be using it to control the ports on several Cyclades TS2000's. Curr 20 Nov 2006 16:57:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1224 Hi, Can anyone give a simple example on how to use certificates please? Basically what I did is: 1) run make inside of /usr/share/ssl/certs after 10 Nov 2006 06:27:05 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1222 Hi everybody, We are using a perle CS9000 terminal server, conected to many SUN servers, and conserver in front of the perle, of course :) Conecting 08 Nov 2006 02:03:32 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1221 Hi, I've tried setting up conserver with a basic config. What I wan't to do is telnet into the console sever and be connected to a remote telnet conn 27 Oct 2006 03:32:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1219 Hello all- I have conserver running on a SUSE box, ttyS0 and S1. I can telnet to the ports and call the serial ports, everything is great. The prob 25 Oct 2006 11:20:46 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1218 Hi list, when I run Conserver with unix domain sockets (configured with --with-uds), the server daemon creates sockets under /tmp/conserver with um 23 Oct 2006 02:20:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1217 Hi William, The one difference I see from my standard configs, is that I call out the "portbase" and "portinc" variables for each brand of [termi 10 Oct 2006 15:52:13 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1215