Mailing List Archive by Gossamer Threads http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/ en-us (c) Gossamer Threads Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Feb 2012 08:43:36 -0800 120 75 23 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/images/lists/rss_logo.jpg Hello, Is there an option to tell conserver to not accumulate files and simply truncate vs copy? I'm trying to keep from accumulating a directory of 07 Jan 2012 09:50:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1696 Hi, LOOOOONG time serial console user, been running conserver for many years. Great package. For most sites, conserver primarily represents OOB acce 06 Dec 2011 18:12:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1689 Hi all- I'm a long time conserver user, and need to replace a failed Cyclades TS400. The Moxa terminal servers were recommended to me by a colleague 17 Nov 2011 13:22:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1684 Dear, all, we had some servers did not have console hardware devices like Avocent ACS, only with BMC. I can use ipmitool(Dell) or SMBridge(IBM) t 01 Nov 2011 19:50:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1680 Folks, I've seen a few email threads over the years around using Conserver with ssh but does anyone have a good example setup using Cisco terminal 28 Oct 2011 02:04:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1679 Hi, I've got conserver running with Lantronix SLC NTS. We're now getting some Avocent Cyclades ACS6000s. I don't get any response when connecting to t 27 Oct 2011 16:15:06 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1677 Hello! I am currently using conserver to access several serial interfaces spread out among a few servers. We have a single conserver-server acting as 21 Oct 2011 06:32:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1668 I'm trying to consolidate my various console technologies with conserver. I have Cycla^H^H^H^H^HAvocent AlterPath CS48, Digi TS and a few others for c 18 Oct 2011 02:05:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1666 I've been trying to add a few BREAK sequences, to do things like "press F10"... What are your favorites (since we only get 10)? Do you use any for c 08 Sep 2011 14:06:41 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1665 Hi, Is there a way to temporarily change the baud rate of a console through the console command line interface without actually permanently changing 07 Sep 2011 01:53:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1663 Hi. i am new here and quite new to serial communications too. i am testing a prototype of a remote telemetry system based on conserver. the idea is 30 Aug 2011 09:20:55 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1662 Hi, is there a way to make conserver support higher baudrates like 230400, 460800, 921600 ? Currently I'm getting an error here and 115200 seems to b 28 Aug 2011 07:10:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1660 Hi there, I've been setting up conserver on a number of Suze Linux machines, connecting to local telnet ports. It normally works just fine, but I've 19 Aug 2011 06:57:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1658 Hello, I am trying to use conserver to connect to the SPs of some blade systems using ssh. However I keep getting this error in the log file. [Tue 02 Aug 2011 04:11:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1652 http://factoringcompany.co.cc/5xb5k 22 Jun 2011 12:15:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1651 Is it possible in the new 8 version to create an action if carrier is lost? I have been using 7.2.X for a long time and I made modifications to the s 09 Jun 2011 08:04:24 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1646 Hello, I work in the former Sun services labs. We have been using an internal fork of a very old version of conserver for a long time now and for 20 Apr 2011 07:38:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1644 Dear conserver users, I'm using CentOS release 5 (Final) with 4G physical memory. I have been using Consever for two years. Recenty, Conserver crashe 13 Feb 2011 20:03:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1640 On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 16:54 -0500, Chris Marget wrote: > read(0, "", 8192) = 0 > select(4, [0 3], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in 14 Dec 2010 13:59:47 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1631 Greetings! I'm having an issue where the 'console' process is taking 100% of my CPU. This happens whenever controlling terminal vanishes in an unexp 14 Dec 2010 13:30:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1628 Good day. I prepared a patch that introduces support for: 1. FreeIPMI with new config keywords: "username", "password", "interface" ("lanplus" va 13 Dec 2010 11:31:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1622 Hi, I'm about to launch a standardized co-location package that includes serial console access. My current plan is to use conserver fronting cyclades 08 Dec 2010 23:06:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1617 I have encountered a problem in using PAM authentication with Conserver. If I run the 'console' client from a (non-trusted) system, then console promp 01 Dec 2010 09:56:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1616 In honor of LISA 2010, and an attempt to get me focused on the improvements folks have feed me, I've packaged up 8.1.18. It's not a huge amount of ch 11 Nov 2010 15:02:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1615 Hi! This patch uses SO_PEERCRED to authenticate uses over AF_UNIX when the access is set to allowed. http://www.acc.umu.se/~glance/conserver/conserv 03 Nov 2010 09:19:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1609 I don't quite understand Conserver's SSL support. What is the purpose of specifying a certificate for a client, if the server cannot use it to identi 01 Nov 2010 15:19:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1599 Hi. About 1-2 years ago I fond a nice looking patch[1] for power control via conserver on this maillist. I have done some cleanup work and some fixe 29 Oct 2010 06:44:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1598 Has anyone published a windows conserver-client binary? This would be very useful as it would get rid of the thousands of shell logins I have from wi 21 Oct 2010 14:09:43 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1596 On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:27:18PM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote: >> Hi Bjorn 13 Oct 2010 09:41:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1592 Hi Guys, I've been wrestling with this for a while and am starting to think I might be misunderstanding how multiple "master's" work. I am running c 11 Oct 2010 17:53:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1584 Hi, I'm a newbie at conserver. I have several PCs and servers need to manage and I don't know if conserver can help me. I read the basic.cf for begin 31 Aug 2010 01:08:23 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1579 Thanks for the swift and useful replies! For the time being I think I can swing them logging in with PuTTY and using remote commands, but I'm keen to 27 Aug 2010 07:57:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1576 Hello, I just installed conserver to log and manage the output of 50 different devices. It works very nicely and I'm very happy with the results but 26 Aug 2010 13:09:21 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1572 Anyone have a working set of config directives for getting conserver working with iLO 3? I have conserver working via telnet to iLO2, but with iLO3 H 05 Aug 2010 16:16:25 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1568 Hi, I'm trying to install Conserver for testing purposes but unfortunately is not able to. when I run ./configure I get a error message saying "no ac 12 Jul 2010 08:29:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1556 Hi Conserver users, I am writing to you for Packt Publishing, the publishers of computer related books. We are planning to extend our catalogue of 08 Apr 2010 02:45:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1555 A typo prevented compiling on my MacOS X. Patch attached. Kind regards Thomas 26 Mar 2010 02:54:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1554 Hi All, I am currently proposing the use of Conserver as the replacement product for an old UNIX ConsoleManager product. To do this I would like to 15 Jan 2010 06:58:45 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1549 I'd really like to be able to use a conserver escape sequence to reset or power cycle a system, for example, by using PowerMan. Having this ability in 30 Nov 2009 15:23:16 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1537 Hi, We have the requirement to graphically present the status of all console links. Does the conserver daemon maintain this information in any form t 26 Nov 2009 00:52:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/conserver/users/1533 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