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From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, David Bear wrote:

> I'm thinking that dropping to single user mode will kill are running
> daemons include sshd?  is that true?

Yes, everything dies in singleuser mode.

>  I have a nearly headless server
> in another building and would like to ssh into it and
>
> init 1
> fsck /
>
> then init 3
>
> but, I'm thinking single user mode will lock remote access out...
>
> any recommendations?

If you drop to single user mode, maybe someone can type 'sshd<enter>' on
the console for you?

Otherwise, try putting the fsck command in the /etc/rc script somewhere
before it starts mounting disks, and reboot.

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