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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin