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Subject: RE: Deactivate serial console?
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:57 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:46 -0700, Howard, Marc wrote:
> > "stty -F /dev/console 0" or the equivalent in code does the trick for me
> > but it might be implementation dependent.
> > 
> 
> That works for disabling the console but now I can't re-enable it.  stty
> -F /dev/console 115200 does not restore serial console access.

OK, for the benefit of the list readers, this solution does work.
However the disable command must be issued from telnet/SSH prompt - if
issued from the a serial console, the serial console locks up and cannot
be restored without a reboot.

Lee