From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 16 12: 3:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4BC37B422 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-1120eab.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.57.75] helo=spotnet.org) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16mKOv-0004qA-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:03:37 -0800 Received: (qmail 12125 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2002 20:03:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.localdomain) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Mar 2002 20:03:36 -0000 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:03:32 -0800 (PST) From: David Talkington X-X-Sender: dtalk@atlantis.spotnet.org To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20020314183808.I34354-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----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