On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:01 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >> Hopefully, someone gets a chuckle out of this. > > > > My recent prize-winner was this > > # ifdown -a > > over an ssh connection. Fortunately the computer I was^H^H had been > > logged into was in the same room as the one I was typing on. > > If I had typed > # ifdown -a ; ifup -a > would I have been able to ssh back in a moment later? If not, would > # ifdown -a ; ifup -a ; /etc/init.d/ssh restart > have done it? Just an 'ifdown -a; ifup -a' would have let you back in. I have actually managed to MAINTAIN a connection that way before. I'm not exactly sure how that happened but I'd imagine that the length of time that it took for the connection to get re-established was less than the ssh timeout period. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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