On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:14:48PM -0400, 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 Define "old Sun". SunOS 3 and 4 never had ssh. Solaris 2.x, Solaris 7, Solaris 8 never came with ssh out of box. Solaris 9 was the first version to come with (a broken) SSH as part of the standard build. > was waiting for an answer, you could remotely ssh in, kill it, restart it, > and answer (or give it the right flags). No. You could do it on the console (as others have said) and so with a serial console connected to a terminal server, or with later-day LOM devices, you could get to the console "out of band". Sun, in fact, were the poster boys for needing to fsck because they threw a lot of stuff onto /usr and had /usr as a separate partition. And many many of the shared libraries were in /usr/lib, so you could only run statically linked programs (normally in /sbin) before filesystems were mounted. SunOS 4 didn't even have "cat" available, so the startup scripts had a shcat() function which used shell builtins to emulate it. -- rgds Stephen