Chris Snook wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Before leaving home on a visit to Italy (where I am now) I re-booted my server. I noticed that shorewall did not print out its usual messages, but foolishly did not check what caused this. Now I can ping the machine, but cannot ssh into it (I chose a strange port) or access its web-server.
My question is: given that I can ping the machine, is there any way I can re-boot it remotely, or even just re-start shorewall?
If there is, it's a very serious bug.
-- Chris
To do it yourself would be a bad bad bug, as Chris mentioned. Now, doing it the manual way, if you have a person available that has physical access to the server, you can reboot it remotely, and restart shorewall rather easily and without a bad security hole.
~Seann