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Application that allows multiple users to watch serial consoles

 Conserver is an application that allows multiple users to watch a serial console
at the same time. It can log the data, allows users to take write-access of a
console (one at a time), and has a variety of bells and whistles to accentuate
that basic functionality.
The idea is that conserver will log all your serial traffic so you can go back
and review why something crashed, look at changes (if done on the console),
or tie the console logs into a monitoring system (just watch the logfiles it
creates).
With multi-user capabilities you can work on equipment with others, mentor,
train, etc.
It also does all that client-server stuff so that, assuming you have a network
connection, you can interact with any of the equipment from home or wherever. 

conserver-com history

v. 1.33
date: 2007/08/27 20:07:07;  author: hrs;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update to 8.1.16.  Changes include:

 - added 'replstring' substitution option - inspired by
   conversation with Owen DeLong 
 - added '^Ecn' option for writing a note to the logfile - patch
   by Bryan Schmersal 
 - fixed leaking file descriptors when 'host' and 'uds' consoles
   fail to connect - based on patch by Michael Heironimus
   

Also, the rc.d script now supports "reload", "reconnect",
and "reinit" keywords (they are to send HUP/USR1/USR2
respectively).

Approved by:	kuriyama (maintainer)

v. 1.32
date: 2007/03/13 03:45:27;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
- Upgrade to 8.1.15.

v. 1.31
date: 2006/05/06 09:53:15;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
- Update to 8.1.14.

PR:		ports/95565
Submitted by:	Andrew Pantyukhin 

v. 1.30
date: 2006/01/30 14:02:49;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -11
- Upgrade to 8.1.13.
- Improve $USE_RC_SUBR usage.

PR:		ports/91839
Submitted by:	Andrew Pantyukhin 

v. 1.29
date: 2005/12/01 22:38:40;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
- Add forgotten patch to unbreak plist.

Reported by:	pointyhat via kris

v. 1.28
date: 2005/11/30 05:52:03;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2
- Upgrade to 8.1.12.
- Add HTTP to MASTER_SITE.
- Minor fixes to conserver.sh.
- Remove harmful patch for conserver.cf sample.

Submitted by:	Andrew Pantyukhin
PR:		ports/88420

v. 1.27
date: 2005/02/01 05:29:00;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.1.11.

Pinged by:	"bsdcrank@squbes.com" 

v. 1.26
date: 2004/10/15 07:39:22;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
- Upgrade to 8.1.10 (various small fixes).
- Use --with-openssl.

v. 1.25
date: 2004/06/03 07:53:12;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Upgrade to 8.1.7.
Enable PAM support by default.

v. 1.24
date: 2004/05/09 14:29:20;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.1.5.

  - add '#include' capability to conserver.cf file.
  - add '@group' syntax to conserver.cf file.
  - add 'initdelay' option.

See CHANGES for details.

v. 1.23
date: 2004/04/14 01:04:14;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.1.4 (minor fixes).

v. 1.22
date: 2004/03/25 04:54:16;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.1.3 (small '^Ec;' bugfix).

v. 1.21
date: 2004/03/14 14:42:57;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade 8.1.2.

- better handling of client command (^Ec|) when user is bumped,
  conserver is reconfigured, etc
- added 'initsubst' option for 'initcmd' substitutions like
  'devicesubst' and 'execsubst'
- modified and added to *subst (initsubst, etc) syntax to allow
  for flexibility and future enhancement
- changed 'port' and 'portinc' minimums from 1 to 0 - it allows
  more flexibility and helps with 0-based counting
- added --with-extmsgs configure switch to enable entertaining
  messages
- added ability to "move" to a new console via '^Ec;'
- added a dump of console information when -S is used twice

v. 1.20
date: 2004/02/11 07:43:54;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.1.1.

v. 1.19
date: 2003/12/11 01:16:00;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
Upgrade to 8.0.9 (bugfix).

v. 1.18
date: 2003/12/07 04:31:49;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Make the sample config file correct for FreeBSD.

v. 1.17
date: 2003/12/05 05:13:23;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.0.8.

v. 1.16
date: 2003/11/19 06:22:07;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.0.6.

v. 1.15
date: 2003/11/01 06:53:05;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 8.0.5 (minor bugfixes).

v. 1.14
date: 2003/10/25 13:11:15;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +10 -12
Update to 8.0.4.

** HEADS UP! **

This major version up includes configuration file format change.
Please convert your conserver.cf before using new vewsion.

And $USE_RC_SUBR is used in this port.  You need to set
conserver_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf to use conserver daemon.

v. 1.13
date: 2003/08/25 07:23:21;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -5
o Upgrade to 7.2.7.
o Apply a patch to install etc/conserver.rc as etc/rc.d/conserver.sh.

v. 1.12
date: 2003/07/05 12:00:55;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Invert the sense of the test for 64-bit architectures, since we only
support one 32-bit platform.

v. 1.11
date: 2003/02/22 07:48:45;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
de-pkg-comment.

v. 1.10
date: 2003/01/22 20:44:46;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
ia64 is also a 64-bit platform.

v. 1.9
date: 2003/01/22 00:17:16;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -1
Add --with-64bit when $ARCH is sparc64 or alpha to unbreak build on these
platform.

Reported by:	bento

v. 1.8
date: 2003/01/04 19:56:16;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Fix ''make reinstall''.

v. 1.7
date: 2002/11/04 03:05:44;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
PERL -> REINPLACE
and russian/mod_ssl has USE_PERL5=yes

Notices on: bento

v. 1.6
date: 2002/10/28 10:08:34;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Upgrade to 7.2.4.

Notified by:	Tim Bishop 

v. 1.5
date: 2002/06/24 00:32:52;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
Upgrade to 7.2.2.

Notified by:	"Vladimir A. Jakovenko" 

v. 1.4
date: 2002/02/27 01:20:42;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Fix unaligned access for alpha.

Submitted by:	Andrew Gallatin 

v. 1.3
date: 2002/02/27 00:54:55;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
Upgrade to 7.1.4.

v. 1.2
date: 2002/02/27 00:53:20;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Support baudrate of 115200 and 57600.

Submitted by:	Andrew Gallatin 

v. 1.1
date: 2001/12/09 14:40:12;  author: kuriyama;  state: Exp;
Yet another conserver which is forked from comms/conserver long ago.
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