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Re: Remote Filesystem Administration



Todd Cole, Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:58:06AM -0400: 
> 
> I have a Debian machine that is only accessible remotely via SSH (no
> keyboard or monitor attached).  In order to perform filesystem maintenance
> with e2fsck, I believe I need to put the machine into single-user mode, but
> with SSH running.  (Currently when I try to run e2fsck in run level 2 I
> receive messages that the "device is busy.")
> 
> It would seem that the best way to do this would be to remove the K20ssh
> script from /etc/rc1.d and replace it with the S20ssh script from run level
> 2.  When I tried this, however, I still lost my ssh connection and had to
> (shutter) reboot the machine via power-cycle.
> 

If you have physical access to the machine you can set up a serial
console.  Uncomment one of the examples in /etc/inittab and configure
lilo to use a serial console.  If your motherboard supports console
redirection you can even see the POST remotely.

g



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