[OmniOS-discuss] How do you configure serial ports on OmniOS?

[Lauri Tirkkonen]

On Fri, Feb 28 2014 13:16:45 -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
>  This question makes me feel silly but I'm lost in a confusing maze of
> documentation for sacadm, pmadm, and so on and I can't find anything
> with web searches. What I would like to do is configure what I believe is
> /dev/term/c ('ttyS3' in Linux) to run a getty or the OmniOS/Illumos/etc
> equivalent at 115200 baud.

I found this pretty useful:
http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/keyboard/serialconsole.txt

> (Please note that I do not want to make this the serial console, a
> procedure for which there seems to be plenty of documentation. I just
> want to be able to log in over that serial port, or it and /dev/term/a.)

Right, so skip setting console stuff; sttydefs and a console-login
service instance should do it I believe.

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