conman

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "[![GitHub Release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/dun/conman.svg)](https://github.com/dun/conman/releases/latest)\n[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/tiny-repos/conman.svg)](https://repology.org/metapackage/conman)\n[![Coverity Scan](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dun-conman/badge.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dun-conman)\n\n### ConMan: The Console Manager\n\nConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large\nnumber of console devices and simultaneous users.\n\nSupported console types:\n- Local serial devices\n- Remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol)\n- IPMI Serial-Over-LAN (via [FreeIPMI\u0027s](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/) libipmiconsole)\n- External processes (e.g., Expect)\n- Unix domain sockets\n\nFeatures:\n- Mapping symbolic names to console devices\n- Logging (and optionally timestamping) console output to file\n- Connecting to a console in monitor (R/O) or interactive (R/W) mode\n- Connecting to multiple consoles for broadcasting (W/O) client output\n- Sharing a console session amongst multiple simultaneous clients\n- Allowing clients to share or steal console \"write\" privileges\n- Executing Expect scripts across multiple consoles in parallel\n\nLinks:\n- [Man Pages](../../wiki/Man-Pages)\n- [License Information](../../wiki/License-Info)\n- [Verifying Releases](../../wiki/Verifying-Releases)\n- [Latest Release](../../releases/latest)\n",
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