Re: [Staffslug] UPS shutdown FreeBSD Box

On 08/11/2007, Joe Zambon <joe.zambon(a)jznet.org.uk&gt; wrote: > > Yeah i'm talking about a physical serial port. > > In response to "why not just add a port"....well.....because it means > buying a serial card...i'm a student...and therefore poor......ignoring the > 100 quid I've just put in on a best offer on a cisco 2600XM router :) Ok, I can understand that as I'm disabled and on a fixed 'low' income :-( But, there are other ways of skinning a cat :-) You could always ask (politely of course) if anybody happens to have a spare serial card that they no longer use. You never know :-) Or, there's always your local Freecycling/freeshare/Realcycle group. That's possibly more of an outside chance but agian, people do give away some amazing kit (I've had no end of PC's and am currently working on a nice old server that was given to me. > Also this is good for future reference if i want to run management scripts > for a *nix/*BSD from a windows box. Very good point.... but if it doesn't work, then assuming you would be doing this in a paid for position the company would be shelling out the cash in a similar situation:in other words they'd be buying a serial card. :-) -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug