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Tweak DESCR to make it a bit clearer what the -net flavour of comms/conserver

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is for. (It's only needed when you have conserver(8) and console(1) on different
machines, or when you have conserver(8) on multiple machines clustered behind a
single front-end).
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sthen 2019-02-26 11:54:57 +00:00
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# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.65 2019/02/25 19:53:16 sthen Exp $
# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.66 2019/02/26 11:54:57 sthen Exp $
COMMENT= manage remote serial consoles via TCP/IP
V= 8.2.2
REVISION= 3
REVISION= 4
DISTNAME= conserver-$V
CATEGORIES= comms

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This program provides a convenient way to manage many remote serial
consoles for machines. A server (conserver(1)) runs on each server
machine and it connects to the specified serial port. It can log,
provide shared access to remote consoles, etc. If there are multiple
machines running conserver(1), a master conserver(1) can be run to
connect to all the slave servers, providing a single point of access
to the entire cluster.
This program provides a convenient way to manage remote consoles.
This is very handy for remote unattended OpenBSD servers. It can
send serial break signals (if the driver supports it, cy(4) does not!)
which is useful for breaking into DDB on hung machines.
The conserver(8) daemon maintains persistent connections to consoles,
either to a local serial port, via a network connection to a terminal
server, via a UNIX domain socket, by running a command, or (with the
"ipmi" flavor) via IPMI serial-over-lan. It can also write logfiles,
and restrict access based on user/group (read, read/write, none).
User access is done with console(1) - this allows standard terminal
commands including sending BREAK signals, and can replay output from
before you connected.
By default conserver<>console connections are done via a unix-domain
socket, but in a larger installation, the "net" flavor can be used
to do this over a TCP+TLS connection to another host - in that case,
conserver(8) instances on multiple servers can be clustered.
Flavors:
net - use network sockets rather than unix domain sockets
(as was previously the default). This is mainly useful when
the conserver server is on a separate machine to the client.
net - use network sockets for conserver<>console and to allow
conserver<>conserver connections.
ipmi - build with internal support for IPMI serial-over-lan