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Open serial (COM1) line on Linux to manage a switch through the console

I have connected a switch to a PC with a serial cable, and I want to manage it. What utility can I use to open a serial line and manage the switch through the console? On Windows I used PuTTY (serial line COM1).
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Unix command to suspend a job while there is console activity?

I want to do a large disk transfer, which slows down responsiveness of my system. What I want is a Unix command that will only run the command after I have been idle at the console for a few minutes. And if I come back half way in, it will suspend…
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Dumping a Linux console scrollback buffer?

We would like to save the output of a program run on a Linux console which spans many lines. Unfortunately it wasn't logged or run under screen, or any other way that lets us easily capture the output. The best method we've been able to come up with…
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What does "virtual consoles" in the ubuntu installer stand for?

I am installing ubuntu server in a vmware vm. In the expert installer there is this question (I guess this is the same in the debian installer): Please enter a space delimited list of virtual consoles you use and the standard setting…
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Need a replacement for "Snoopy"

Currently, we use Snoopy to monitor all commands issued by users on some externally accessible servers. We're in the process of updating everything to RHEL8 to ensure supportability and compliance, and discovered that my beloved Snoopy is no longer…
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What are the differenced between SuperMicro console terminal types ANSI, VT100 and VT-UTF8

I tried to find a comparison between various terminal types configurable on SuperMicro console to serial BIOS redirection but I was not able to find any. Can someone make a brief comparison of these? Defaults seems to be ANSI which is likely to be…
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How to prevent the VMware console from catching the mouse

I am currently setting up a new server (Ubuntu LTS) and I have to use the VMware console form a Windows 10 PC to do so. I am used to use PuTTY and I find the VMware console very inconvenient. What I would like to achieve is that the console would…
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Hiding linux kernel messages from console

I have a machine running a custom build of Linux kernel 3.2.12-rt based on Debian Squeeze. I'm getting kernel messages printed to the console. I don't want it to do that. I know why it's doing that: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk 8 4 1 …
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PowerShell Start-Job output

When I run command Start-Job {dir} in PowerShell I get output Id Name State HasMoreData Location Command -- ---- ----- ----------- -------- ------- 43 …
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Is there a folder size tool for linux? (web-based or working on console)

I have a debian server which has a lot of user folders and I would like to have a tool like FolderSize application in Mac, where i can check the filesystem by filetype or foldersize (or whatever argument possible to sort) to have a quick look on…
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Replacement for Windows command console

I'm not a sysadmin, but I use a Windows 2003 server at work fairly often for testing purposes, and I'm always annoyed by the limitations of the standard Windows console terminal. Is there some "industry standard" tool that I don't know about, to…
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Connecting a USB laptop to a RJ45 serial port

We are about to get our first managed switch at work (Procurve 2520G-24-PoE), and this lowly programmer gets to put on his admin hat and try to configure it. The switch has an RJ45 serial port for console access. My laptop has USB ports but no…
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Linux process management

I started a long running background-process (dd with /dev/urandom) in my ssh console. Later I had to disconnect. When I logged in, again (this time directly, without ssh), the process still seemed to to run. I am not sure what happened - I did not…
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How do I copy/paste to a VM console window in the VMware ESXi HTML interface?

I have an Ubuntu VM in an instance of VMware ESXi 6.7.0. I am using Chrome to access the VM console in the HTML interface of VMware ESXi. (I do not have SSH access to the VM.) I would like to copy/paste from my Windows PC to the VM console window. I…
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Why does writing to the console a process's STDIN is attached to doesn't send input to the application itself?

Taken from this answer: Terminal 1: [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ cat shows on the tty but bypasses cat Terminal 2: [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ pidof cat 7417 [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ echo "shows on the tty but bypasses cat" > /proc/7417/fd/0 I don't quite understand…
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