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Conserver FAQ
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This is the Conserver FAQ. Any suggestions/corrections/etc should be
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directed to faq@conserver.com. The FAQ answers the following questions:
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1) Where can I find the software?
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2) How do I deal with these serial ports?
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3) How can I tell what compile-time defaults were used?
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4) What does "conserver: getservbyname: conserver: No such file or
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directory" mean (or something close to that)?
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5) What does "console: gethostbyname: console: host lookup error"
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mean (or something close to that)?
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6) How do I set up a serial port for no parity?
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1) Where can I find the software?
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The latest version can be found at http://www.conserver.com/
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2) How do I wire/hook up serial ports?
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David "Zonker" Harris has a wonderful set of pages that talk about
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hooking up many types of terminal servers, equipment, etc. It also
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provides links to other serial port references. You can find his
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pages at http://www.conserver.com/consoles/.
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Celeste Stokely also has a wealth of references at
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http://www.stokely.com/. Just look around and be amazed at what
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you'll find!
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3) How can I tell what compile-time defaults were used?
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The compile-time defaults can be found by running conserver and
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console with the -V flag. Simple as that.
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4) What does "conserver: getservbyname: conserver: No such file or
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directory" mean (or something close to that)?
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When conserver was compiled, it was told to use the /etc/services
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entry of "conserver" (what came after getservbyname:). You'll need
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to either recompile conserver and hard-code a port number (using
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PORT instead of SERVICE in conserver/cons.h) or enter "conserver"
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in /etc/services.
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5) What does "console: gethostbyname: console: host lookup error"
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mean (or something close to that)?
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When the console command was compiled, it was told to use the
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hostname "console" (what came after gethostbyname:) as the master
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conserver host. You'll need to either recompile console with the
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appropriate name of your conserver host or add an alias of "console".
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In most cases, adding an alias is my suggestion.
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6) How do I set up a local serial port for no parity?
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The conserver.cf man page will have this in the 6.17 release,
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but the answer is to use a 'p' after the baud rate. So, '9600p'
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is 9600 baud, no parity.
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#
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# $Id: FAQ,v 1.2 2000-12-13 12:20:03-08 bryan Exp $
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#
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