From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 10 7:18:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [205.252.34.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B077937B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [205.252.34.3]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414852E443 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:18:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9AEIbd07473; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:18:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.9533.141056.968810@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:18:37 -0400 (EDT) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: effective use of serial console In-Reply-To: References: <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "JvR" == Janko van Roosmalen writes: JvR> I have read somewhere that the classic trick is to add an user to JvR> your system with "shutdown" as login shell. But if your system is not responding to logins, it won't help you. That's about the only time you'd use ctrl-alt-del on a physical console too. For example, your proc table is full or some other DoS attack is going on. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message