serial console config

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 00:58 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:56 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jon Masters (jonathan at jonmasters.org) said: 
> > > What's the recommended way to configure a serial console in Fedora 9
> > > with upstart? /etc/event.d/serial requires some fedora-centric event to
> > > be emitted but I'm not sure where this is supposed to be generated.
> > 
> > >From udev.
> > 
> > > <aside> time was, you could just setup a serial console in 3 seconds, I
> > > guess I'm pining for the good old days...or some documentation.
> > 
> > cp /etc/event.d/tty1 /etc/event.d/my_serial_console. Edit as appropriate.
> 
> Ah, thanks for the replies guys but I'm not sure my original point was
> clear. I can fudge this as much as the next guy but there's a designated
> serial file in that event.d directory that is clearly supposed to be
> getting some kind of event trigger to start the console. Consequently,
> there's supposedly some new "Fedora way" to do serial consoles that
> isn't locatable in Google, nobody here has mentioned, and is
> undocumented. If nobody knows, why does that file exist?
> 
> So my question was more of a WTF about that serial file.

+1. I don't know wtf about that serial file, either.

I read it a couple of times before giving up and doing it my own way.

-sv