On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:38:44AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> > >> 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.... > >> > >> mark > > > > > > sshd can't come up before the fsck ... fsck is done on unmounted file > systems. On the old Sun machines (and the new ones for that matter) > there was a remote console (exactly what Brian mentions) that you had > access to where you started the OS. This Console allow you to see > things before sshd was turned on via the machine, but it was also on a > separate IP address from the machine. Same with DRAC. It's useful, for example, if one is trying to do something like team NICs, and a mistype makes the machine's main IP address unreachable. As Johnny says, it's a separate IP address. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Generally speaking, when scary things get scared, not good.