Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:42:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>, <Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: corporate announcement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104051938140.54885-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010405170015.00c79410@localhost>
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:56 PM 4/5/2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > >Heh, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to design a watchdog into any > >system that is sitting outside of easy reach, no matter how stable you > >think the operating system is. :-) > > I don't know how many admins I've met who admit to having locked > themselves out of their own systems (usually via bad firewall > rules). In many cases, they have had to drive miles to get to the > system console. I've had to do that before. Luckily I only live 15 minutes from work. I'd set up a modem for out-of-band access, but I've got several boxes I'd want to do that with, and I can't tie up that many phone lines, and we can't afford a console server at the moment. I don't think a watchdog would help you out in that situation anyway. > Of course, in the case of Pathfinder, it would have been a > slightly longer drive. ;-) Who said anything about driving? :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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