On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:03, Steve Huff wrote: > however, my eventual plan is to use these as fencing devices for a > small RHCS cluster i'm building, and so the fencing process will need > to be scriptable. RHCS wants to fence by invoking a "/sbin/ > fence_<whatever>" script that uses Net::Telnet to connect to the > fencing device and then enters the commands. > > so, it seems that what i need is a telnet server running on my CentOS > box that, instead of calling /bin/login when someone connects, > instead starts up a serial session (i'd prefer something more > transparent than minicom, if possible). anyone have any good ideas > on how to do this? i had been thinking of creating a user for this > purpose whose shell was /usr/bin/minicom, but i'm open to other > suggestions. If it is obvious what the fence_ script is doing, you can probably replace it completely with a kermit script where you can chat equally well with serial or network connections. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com