Re: Logging in screen

[janth]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:11:20AM +0000, jan wrote:
> I am trying to do something that I can't quite get my head around; I hope 
> that somebody with more experience can help me.
> 
> This is what I try to do: I have a large number of serial ports attached to 
> one of my linux boxes - I use them as consoles for the other UNIXes, which 
> seems to work fine with minicom. I have set it up 
> so I have a number of screen sessions start up in detached mode, each running 
> a minicom connected to a serial port; this is not complicated, if a little 
> fiddly.
> 
> Minicom runs an initialisation script through 'expect' - the script captures 
> the log on prompt from the server at the other end, extracts the server name 
> and saves in a file; I use this to correlate 
> the screen sessions with server names.
> 
> What I want to achieve is the following:
> 
> 1: I want to turn on logging in screen, but not until after minicom's expect 
> script has run - otherwise the server's output seems to get caught in the 
> screen log and not in the expect script. I have 
> tried to achieve this by getting the script to send a "^A:", but this just 
> goes straight to the serial line. Is there another way?
> 
> 2: I also want to avoid logging the screen formatting codes - is there a way 
> to achieve this?
> 
> I suppose I could find a way around both issues, eventually, but it would be 
> nice not to have to.
> 
> /jan


Perhaps don't use screen+minicom, but use conserver (http://www.conserver.com/)?
Also see article in SysAdmin: 
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9842/sam0514b/0514b.htm

-- 
Jan Thomas Moldung