Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:03:32 -0800 (PST) From: David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203161155120.11078-100000@atlantis.spotnet.org> In-Reply-To: <20020314183808.I34354-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Thompson wrote: >One last idea that I have used on occasion: Make some "key floppies" >that basically contain a flag file that will cause your server to >execute a predetermined list of instructions. Set up a cron job that, >every few minutes, mounts the disk and checks for the existence of >your flag files. You can trivially set this up to cleanly reboot the >system, restart daemons, etc. That's a clever idea. To augment it for a bit of safety, one might add a static keyfile to each floppy and store its MD5 hash on the server, or maybe even use GPG signatures on the flags themselves, to ensure that only _your_ floppies can be used this way. Thanks for the tip! - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPJOlGL9BpdPKTBGtEQL1TACdHnWkVCIetbHFPomObHb8NcgynbcAoKiD nk2+GAXhQFOftwT4ReFUJTd3 =m+YW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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