Terminal Window to the SBC

In order to view the processes on the SBC, a terminal window can be used to attach to the Debug port on the SBC. The hardware and software is already setup on each of the DAQ computers to do so. On the PC type DAQ computers this can be done in two ways :

• Use catmaster to activate the SBC Terminal window
• Alternatively, you can open an XTERM on the daq computer and start the minicom program (just type minicom on the command prompt. This is defaulted to connect to the SBC Debug port.

In order to quit the Debug terminal window : ctrl-A and then Q. Choose YES to leave without reset.

On the Sun MicroSystems machine , open an XTERM on the daq computer and use the tip program to connect to the SBC Debug port. The command is : tip a. In order to quit from the tip program hit the tilde ($\sim$) key and then type a period (.). This is an alias to /bin/tip -9600 ttya.