Re: emergency shutdown?
I, like at least 75% of people, don't run telnetd.
_Tech
On 2 Jan 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:38:34PM +0000, Simon R Tod (S.R.Tod@damtp.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> >
> > Don't cross-post. Reply sent to debian-user only.
> >
> > > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours.
> >
> > Six days here. Uptimes of up to 22 days.
> >
> > > When I came back to it this morning it was very hot, the fan was
> > > kicking in evert minute or two and everything was working really
> > > slowly....
> >
> > Not unusual if it's working hard or swapping heavily.
> >
> > > It's now just ceased up completely. The text has disappeared off my
> > > xterm and I can't get any movement out of the mouse.
> >
> > Ditto.
> >
> > > I don't see how I can do anything but just turn the power off, leave
> > > it for a few hours to cool down then reboot.
> >
> > Try switching to a console. Sometimes your X session is less
> > responsive. If you've got a network, try ssh'ing into the box.
>
> Actually, telnet's better if the box is really struggling, presumably
> because setting up an encrypted session takes more CPU power.
>
> When my box has been really unresponsive, I could usually get in with
> telnet, but ssh would time out.
>
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