On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:35:33 -0600 (CST)
Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> wrote:

> 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..

I thought it sounded fishy too, but I went by what I was told. 
Perhaps I'll have to do more researching.

Thanks for the tip,

Josh


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