Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:47:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>, <Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: corporate announcement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104060943090.63414-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010406015339.0444f100@localhost>
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:42 PM 4/5/2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > >I don't think a watchdog would help you out in that situation anyway. > > It could. You could say, "If I don't connect in 5 minutes, flush > all the firewall rules, fall back to a minimal set of daemons, and > reboot." Yup. You wouldn't need hardware to do that, though. I could hack up a shell script to do that. I have, actually, on an old server with an lnc NIC that likes to go dead occasionally. It'll '/sbin/shutdown -r now' when it can't communicate with the outside world for a while. Not exactly the same, but it wouldn't be hard to replace the shutdown with an ipfw flush and a new ruleset in there, and to make sure certain daemons are running such as sshd. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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