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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:33:02 -0500
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote Single User Mode.
Message-ID:  <20040410173302.GC21535@ns1.tcbug.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040410172931.GA56892@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
References:  <006f01c41ee3$1e9160f0$6501a8c0@grant> <20040410172931.GA56892@alexis.mi.celestial.com>

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On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:29:31AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004, Grant Peel wrote:
> >Happy Easter all!
> >
> >Here is an off-the-wall question....
> 
> >I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most
> >admin I can do remotely of course, but I was wondering, if there exists a
> >software/hardware solution that might actually allow one to reboot any one
> >of the machines remotely and alllow access in single user mode. Obviously,
> >that machine would not be accessable via the normal netwrk method, but
> >again, is there a KVM - software that would allow local access in single
> >user mode VIA a network connection to one of the other servers, or the KVM
> >directly?
> 
> I haven't tried this on FreeBSD, but several years ago I had to do some
> single user work on an SCO OpenServer box in Texas.  I had the owner of the
> machine start sshd in single user mode, then I could ssh into the system to
> work.  The SCO box activates the network in single user.  FreeBSD would
> probably require starting network services manually.
> 
> Bill

You might want to look into PC Weasel cards.

Josh Paetzel



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