[olug] Old Machine Reboot

[Hurley Rod]

If you have a backhoe, you could take down the grid...

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Thomas D. Williamson
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:00 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] Old Machine Reboot

It probably has UPS with a generator switch-over.


Tom Williamson

Quoting Jay Swackhamer <Jay at RebootTheUser.com>:

> 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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>
> 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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