On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Josh Trutwin wrote: > My business partner and I were on IM managing something over phpMyAdmin > when I noticed the "system going down now" reboot message on my SSH > console. WTF? Starting to get nervous. <...> > A few more minutes go by and get an IM from my buddy - ISP called back, > power cord was loose. ARG! At least they were quick about finding it. > Makes sense now but during the episode I was thinking much worse. Actually, loose power cord wouldn't give you the reboot messages; it'd just crash the box hard if it was losing the connection. Sounds more like someone hooked a keyboard up to the wrong box and was hitting ctrl-alt-del to try to reboot it to me - might want to disable ca in inittab.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list