remote console access to a linux box

[lyons at digitalvoodoo.org (Timothy M. Lyons)]

This is going to sound silly but are you using the proper connectors to
connect back to
the console server?  We ran into a similar situation some time back and
after burning a
lot of time troubleshooting the issue found that to be the issue.

My .02

--Tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antoinette" <antietorrey at yahoo.com>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:45
Subject: remote console access to a linux box


> Hey All,
>
> I've been working on this issue for awhile, without any success.
>  Here goes:
>
> I have a linux box running Red Hat Linux release 8.0.  And, I'm
> attempting to connect remotely via a remote console tool,
> ConsoleWorks v1.5 and v2.0.  On the linux box, I setserial to
> 9600 baud, on the ConsoleWorks side, everything is configured
> correctly for access.  Now, the problem is when I attempt to
> connect to the box via ConsoleWorks, I get the following:
>
> Trying opensys1.mgh.harvard.edu. 5176 ...
>
> Sending authentication information...
>
> Connected to opensys1.mgh.harvard.edu..
>
> AH915 connecting to console MSYSPRD1 with write access
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> It connects, but, then it just writes garbage.  Any ideas,
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antoinette
>
>
> =====
> Peace,
>
> Antoinette
>
> "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away." - Author unknown, but, I'll take credit for it.
>
>
>
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