Tag Archives: shell

Tool of the Day: console (Windows)

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 – 11:31am

Sometimes I’m stuck with using Windows. Fortunately Cygwin helps out and gives me a nice Unix-y command line where I can get things done in a way I’m comfortable with.
But, the default Windows command line tool found in XP is, frankly, awful. It dates back to Windows 95 (or at least, it looks and feels [...]

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Pick a language, any half dozen will do

Monday, May 14, 2007 – 6:12pm

Part of being in the IT industry, and the internet sector in particular, is constant learning and keeping up with relevant technologies.
I found that out the hard way, spending the first 4 years of my first full-time job working on a system that was proprietary all the way from the code we wrote to the [...]

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Put a login shell on a serial port in Linux

Friday, January 12, 2007 – 3:30pm

(without using getty, agetty or the like)
I wanted to create a custom live CD of Ubuntu Linux, with, among other features, a root login shell on the first serial port.
The following command does just that. Default settings are 9600,8n1.
/bin/login -f root > /dev/ttyS0 < /dev/ttyS0 2>&1
Normally this would be added to /etc/inittab alongside the other [...]

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