Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:38:44AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, 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 a

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/27/2011 03:22 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, 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,

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-28 Thread Bent Terp
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:28 PM, wrote: > Hmm, now *that's* an interesting thought: with, say, DRAC, could you ssh > into a management server, then go to a booting system? I'd recommend you use a vpn connection instead, so you can go straight to the iDRAC/ILO/RSA2 (Dell/HP/IBM, respectively) us

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Devin Reade
m.r...@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 As others have indicated, but not in so many words, your manager is out to lunch in this case: ssh, once it was introduced, was started at run level 3 (or the eq

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:14:48PM -0400, m.r...@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

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Keith Keller
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:25:22PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > > With remote console, > you might be able to get in, but I'm not sure if the other gettys are > running before the fsck starts. With a true serial console you get access to ''the'' console, where the message about proceeding with th

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:28 PM, wrote: > Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM,   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

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 27/04/11 21:28, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Hmm, now *that's* an interesting thought: with, say, DRAC, could you ssh > into a management server, then go to a booting system? It is usually web (and Java) based, running on a different IP address through the DRAC/ILO port. __

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread m . roth
Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, 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,

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/27/11 1:14 PM, m.r...@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

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, 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

[CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread m . roth
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