On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 scw@seas.ucla.edu wrote:
ARGGG! NO! NO! NO! Disaster waiting to happen. A failed terminal, or one that is turned off or has its power line unplugged generates a BREAK -well strictly speaking it's not really a BREAK but most implimentations of UART see it as a break. This used to happen to our Admin folks every once in a while with their SUN. Remember the users with their torches and pitchforks.
I think you need some valium to calm down your paranoia.
We have 800 Suns, all of which have that feature. I haven't heard of any such uprising happening any time during a LONG history of this organization (pre Sun). This is especially hard to do with remote terminal servers. I think whether you want this or not should be toggled by and OpenBoot variable set to disabled by default.
I've made the mistake of turning on the terminal after it was plugged in to the Sun and halting it several times in my life. Every time I was able to type in "go" and the box continued to happily chug along. If you're giving console access to people that can't perform this simple step you shouldn't be an administrator.<- period
Tom