would be neat to rip out the controller and put in something more modern with GPIO that would give you true remote control, but this is easy enough to set and forget.
Thanks ! This was very useful. These are pretty expensive and still can be kind of annoying to work with. 8:39 My guess is you did: 'control-A d' means detach, which means the screen instance is still running in the backgroup. So you have 2 screen processes connected to the USB serial port. Thus part of the output goes to 1 or he other. 11:03 just a little side note, TCP/IP has 3 packet types: TCP, UDP and ICMP... And ping is ICMP echo-request, not UDP or TCP.
I have 30+ of these old PDUs. the ones with a light next to the outlets are switched. The caps in the powersupply that runs the display and NIC dry up and start to fail at about 12 years. You know when the LED segments start to blink and the device drops off the network. Eventually that relays start to not wake up when they should.
the reason why it look so weird from 8:15 on is that you have TWO screen processes running, both listening on the tty, so you practically only get half of the data since it is random which of your two screen processes gets which data. I'm not using Linux much any more, but that is old knowledge from way back from somewhere about the year 1995 :D... from 9:09 it looks somewhat normal again since the other screen process either got suspended or some other effect took place to make it show on your newer session again. If you hadn't been root here you would probably have gotten a "file in use" or similar message, preventing two instances reading from the same tty. The other linux commands remind me on my own first linux steps and how bad I was at the beginning. Just keep on using and learning! Windows would have blocked a second program from accessing as well. And of course, you could have used any other OS, Linux, Windows, Mac, MS-DOS, Windows NT 3.51, Amiga, Atari ST, even a C64 might have worked.
@@OvalboreTech Of course! That is the internet! Always rude haters around with zero tolerance for beginners. They ignore that they were once beginners too!
