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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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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


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