Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:29:31 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Single User Mode. Message-ID: <20040410172931.GA56892@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <006f01c41ee3$1e9160f0$6501a8c0@grant>
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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 -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.'' Will Rogershome | help
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