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.. > Ahh, the fun of not being able to access the server physically. I had a similar misadventure a few months back. I have a server that is colo'd at a school. After a reboot it would not come up. Went through the trouble of shipping out my backup server. In the mean time a little more dialoging revealed the fact that there was no longer a keyboard attached. The thing is headless, so when server booted it threw the typical "I'd really feel better if I had a keyboard to talk to" error and stopped. _______________________________________________ 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