[CentOS] A 'simple' problem?

John Newbigin jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Mon Apr 25 23:35:39 UTC 2005


Have you got 'magic script' turned on in samba?
If not, have you got swat running and able to turn on magic script?

If you do then you could run a script which will run 'service sshd 
restart' for you.

John.

Nigel Kendrick wrote:

> Here's one for you if you have the time:
> 
> I very stupidly killed the wrong process on a server on a remote site on
> Friday and now I cannot ssh login to it! It's not a major problem as it's
> main functions are as a file and print sharer (samba) and to run
> postfix/mailscanner, and I can have someone on site reboot the server when
> they start work on Monday, but I was wondering whether I could 'get in' by
> other means to reboot it - so far I have tried the following without luck:
> 
> Simultaneous login requests to 'reach' a listening login as I think I've
> only screwed up pts0
> 
> A VNC connection to a machine on site and then using telnet (nope, telnet
> disabled)
> 
> A VNC connection to a machine on site and then a VNC connection to the
> server (VNC not running on this one).
> 
> Any suggestions to issue a remote reboot - as I said, it's not a major issue
> as I can have the server rebooted by someone on site.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nigel Kendrick
> 
> 
> 
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John Newbigin
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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
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