The Xserve has a serial port and it’s enabled by default. You can disable by commenting out this line:
tty.serial ”/usr/libexec/getty serial.57600″ vt100 off secure
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Really should mention that this line is found in the file /etc/ttys and a comment is a # character at the beginning of the line.
Also should comment how to make it go away.
`locate SerialTerminalSupport` stop
Kill the getty process (find the pid by using ps -ef | grep serial)