Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:33:02 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Single User Mode. Message-ID: <20040410173302.GC21535@ns1.tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20040410172931.GA56892@alexis.mi.celestial.com> References: <006f01c41ee3$1e9160f0$6501a8c0@grant> <20040410172931.GA56892@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:29:31AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004, Grant Peel wrote: > >Happy Easter all! > > > >Here is an off-the-wall question.... > > >I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most > >admin I can do remotely of course, but I was wondering, if there exists a > >software/hardware solution that might actually allow one to reboot any one > >of the machines remotely and alllow access in single user mode. Obviously, > >that machine would not be accessable via the normal netwrk method, but > >again, is there a KVM - software that would allow local access in single > >user mode VIA a network connection to one of the other servers, or the KVM > >directly? > > I haven't tried this on FreeBSD, but several years ago I had to do some > single user work on an SCO OpenServer box in Texas. I had the owner of the > machine start sshd in single user mode, then I could ssh into the system to > work. The SCO box activates the network in single user. FreeBSD would > probably require starting network services manually. > > Bill You might want to look into PC Weasel cards. Josh Paetzel
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