Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
>Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
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>>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:33:28PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>>Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb WipeOut um 14:21:
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>>>>I have a colocated server and when I have to get them to reboot it they
>>>>just hit the power switch which can't be good for filesystems and
>>>>databases..
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>>>Ouch! Why not let the person requested to reboot your server just
>>>pressing "Ctrl+Alt+Del"? That is by default not deactivated and
will
>>>cause the system to reboot. No user permissions needed, no need for a
>>>"reboot user".
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>>Is there a CRT, Keyboard and Mouse on the box?
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>>If so you can have reboot and shutdown click to do it buttons on the
>>CRT. No account access is needed only physical access. See gdm.
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>Only if he is running X on the server. Then the login screen has that.
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Correct. Some colocos' only have a serial access so it is important to
know what the access methods are which is why I asked about keyboard and
mouse to see if this was even possible.
AFAIK they yse a KVM switch, but X is not installed on the server..