Serial Console Applications?

[ward at pong.be (Ward Vandewege)]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:01:28AM -0400, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding or not realizing how getty can be  
> used... Can a user log ssh into a machine and run "getty /dev/ttyS0"  
> from the command prompt? When they are done, how do they quit getty?  
> I think if they can quit getty, it would be a good solution for this  
> application.
> 
> Ward,  what is cu?

>From the man page:

The  cu  command  is  used  to call up another system and act as a
dial in terminal.  It can also do simple file transfers with no error checking.

It's command line based. Might be just what you need. The binary on my Debian
system is 145K, which I'm sure could be reduced.

Ward.

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