{"id":9266,"date":"2008-03-04T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/pr-5732\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:47","slug":"pr-5732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/pr-5732\/","title":{"rendered":"PR #5732"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/Trashwall\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/openbsd4_3-snapshot_serial_console_fix_test.png\" height=419 width=640 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See that <tt>Change the default console to zstty0? [no]<\/tt> line? That&#8217;s the result of OpenBSD <a href=\"http:\/\/cvs.openbsd.org\/cgi-bin\/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&#038;numbers=5732\">Problem Report #5732<\/a> which I had submitted a few weeks back. Two days ago Ken Westerback, one of the OpenBSD devs emailed me a patch which was about to be committed in order to resolve the problem, and a request that I test it on <tt>macppc<\/tt>. Well, I did, and it works great.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it looks through your dmesg for the console and sets up whatever serial port is used for that as your console.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me happy. OpenBSD really is a great OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See that Change the default console to zstty0? [no] line? That&#8217;s the result of OpenBSD Problem Report #5732 which I had submitted a few weeks back. Two days ago Ken Westerback, one of the OpenBSD devs emailed me a patch which was about to be committed in order to resolve the problem, and a request\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24714,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions\/24714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}