RE: Blackbox setup - Keyboard and Mouse

["Jason Lewis" <jlewis () packetnexus com>]

Here is what I use. It might be helpful.

CONFIGURING THE TERMINAL 'SERVER':
In /etc/inittab, add the following line:
S1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT19200 vt100

Once this line is added, you can make init aware of your changes with the
command:
kill -HUP 1

This will allow a login on the terminal only AFTER the terminal server has
booted. You won't see boot-up messages.
If you intend to always do this, add the following entry to your lilo.conf
file:
append=" console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200N8 "

Then just run lilo and reboot.


Jason Lewis
http://www.packetnexus.com
It's not secure "Because they told me it was secure".
The people at the other end of the link know less
about security than you do. And that's scary.



-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net]On Behalf Of Ramin
Alidousti
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:41 AM
To: Subba Rao
Cc: Snort Users
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Blackbox setup - Keyboard and Mouse


On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:04:14AM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:

> I am setting up a regular Intel PC as blackbox running snort. If this
> proves successful then our folks may buy a rack mounted blackbox.
>
> For now, everything is setup perfectly (hopefully). The box is on the
> network with restricted access and snorting the network traffic. It is
also
> setup to startup with Snort running at boot up (in case of power failure).
> The only issue for now is the need to have keyboard and mouse to be
> attached to the box. If these devices are missing the system is throwing
> a BIOS message upon reboot. I suppose I could disable these devices in the
> BIOS to bypass this error message. Are there any OS (Linux/OpenBSD)
related

If you enable the "serial console" in your kernel, then you can access the
console via the com port. Very convenient.

Ramin

> issues, if the keyboard or mouse is missing? Most blackbox systems do not
> have these devices anyway.
>
> I would like to hear any experiences or advice with setting up a blackbox
> without keyboard and mouse.
>
> TIA.
> --
>
> Subba Rao
> subba9 () home com
> http://members.home.net/subba9/

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