<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <maintainer> <email>maintainer-needed@gentoo.org</email> </maintainer> <longdescription lang="en"> nca connects a pseudo terminal to the console's virtual terminals (/dev/tty0...n) that are normally only accessible to someone with local keyboard access. It is particularly useful in conjunction with ncad since it then provides remote console access via SSH; with some appropriate system start up scripts, ncad can be started immediately the root filesystem has been mounted read-only, providing a cheap, and only marginally inferior alternative to a serial console. </longdescription> </pkgmetadata>