Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> My manager reminds me that "in the old Sun days", the ssh server came up >> first, *before* the fsck on boot, so that if there was a problem, and >> fsck was waiting for an answer, you could remotely ssh in, kill it, restart >> it, and answer (or give it the right flags). >> >> Does anyone know if it's possible to have that happen with CentOS? It >> would be nice to have it boot that way, so that if you checked, and >> figured it should have been up already, you could handle the problem >> without coming in.... > > I think having a decent remote console is the solution to that. DRAC, > KVMoIP, Serial console, etc... I'm not sure how it could be > considered safe to start services like sshd before the filesystem has > been checked. Hmm, now *that's* an interesting thought: with, say, DRAC, could you ssh into a management server, then go to a booting system? mark