[olug] Old Machine Reboot

[Jay Swackhamer]

If you cant get to where the machine is, you could just power off the  
building and back on, ......that should do it...

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Jay Swackhamer
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Quoting Tom <tom at twvance.com>:

> rob: no way for me to get access to the router its plugged in to.
> sean: damn.
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2007 10:17 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> if you have a separate hw firewall, maybe all the ports could be
>> closed on the firewall which may in turn cause the network programs to
>> close any open files.
>>
>> On 11/15/07, Tom <tom at twvance.com> wrote:
>> > debug1: Sending command: /sbin/reboot
>> > Received disconnect from {ip}: 2: Could not create socket pairs: Too
>> many
>> > open files in system
>> >
>> > not sure what processes are running on the machine or what to kill (if i
>> > could)
>> > the machine used to run apache,postfix,djbdns,proftpd,mysql
>> >
>> > On Nov 15, 2007 9:14 AM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >  From the looks of the log, you're connecting successfully, then
>> getting
>> > > disconnected before the command can run.  Have you tried sending
>> 'kill'
>> > > for all the users' processes, instead of just reboot?  Secondly, on
>> some
>> > > systems /sbin isn't necessarily on the users path, so you might try
>> > > sending /sbin/reboot if anything...
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Carl Lundstedt wrote:
>> > > > Can you ftp a reboot script into the system's cron area?
>> > > >
>> > > > Calr
>> > > >> Forget to mention other open ports on the machine.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> 21/tcp  open  ftp
>> > > >> 22/tcp  open  ssh
>> > > >> 110/tcp open  pop3
>> > > >> 143/tcp open  imap
>> > > >> 993/tcp open  imaps
>> > > >> 995/tcp open  pop3s
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