On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Tracy Reed <treed at ultraviolet.org> wrote: > I am trying to get a CentOS 6.3 serial console to work with IPMI SOL. I > think I > have everything working but maybe the wrong baud rate on the getty: > > Hi Tracy, On a Dell PowerEdge 2950 I have CentOS 6.3 and Serial over LAN working. I too had issues with a feedback loop where two items were fighting and causing spontaneous invalid log ins. Below is simply what I used - adjust your baud rate to whatever you have chosen. BIOS: Set external connector to COM1 Set SoL to run on COM2 Set to 57600 with RTS/CTS flow control CentOS: ~]# cat /etc/init/serial-ttyS1.conf # This service maintains a getty on /dev/ttyS1.start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345] #stop on starting runlevel [016]respawn #exec /sbin/agetty -h -L ttyS1 57600 vt100 # # ttyS1 - agetty # # This service maintains a agetty on ttyS1. stop on runlevel [S016] start on runlevel [23] respawn exec agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 57600 vt100 ~]# initctl start serial-ttyS1 $ ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -H 10.0.0.14 sol activate > Password: > [SOL Session operational. Use ~? for help] > ���������� > > 10.0.0.14 is the DRAC IP address of the CentOS 6.3 box. It accepts the > password > and connects me to the console but then when I type I get those funny > characters. Somehow an agetty is already being run: > > root 46110 1 0 16:13 ttyS1 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty /dev/ttyS1 > 19200 vt100-nav > > Is udev starting this up for me somehow? It says 19200 when everything I > have > read says it should be 115200. How do I change this? Some docs say I should > create my own /etc/init/serial-ttyS1.conf containing: > > # For IPMI serial console > # ttyS1 - agetty > # > # This service maintains a agetty on ttyS1. > > stop on runlevel [S016] > start on runlevel [23] > > respawn > exec agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 115200 vt102 > > but when I do that I end up with two gettys, presumably fighting over the > serial port, and the original is apparently holding onto it because I still > can't connect and get a login prompt. > > # ps -ef |grep agetty > root 46110 1 0 16:13 ttyS1 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty /dev/ttyS1 > 19200 vt100-nav > root 46118 1 0 16:13 ? 00:00:00 agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 > 115200 vt102 > > What is the right way to set this up? > > You are on the right track. I managed to fix my setup by trial and error. I stopped the serial getty with initctl and started again a few moments later and my setup has been behaving since. > Thanks! > > -- > Tracy Reed > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //