Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 13:51, backyard wrote: > > > By call-back mode do you mean log into the system > via > > network and have it call your local system for > > administration > > No modems like the US Robotics V.Everything can > be programmed wi

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread Bob
On Monday 18 September 2006 13:51, backyard wrote: > By call-back mode do you mean log into the system via > network and have it call your local system for > administration No modems like the US Robotics V.Everything can be programmed with a call-back feature. You dial up the modem, it askes

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread Rafael Aquino
ROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:32:05 +0200 Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server > Hello pobox, > > Saturday, September 16, 2006, 8:47:04 PM, you wrote: >

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:51, backyard wrote: > > >modems are relatively cheap. > > And, if you put it into "call-back" mode, it becomes > one of the most secure > methods of doing a remote serial console; plus you > have the added advantage > o

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread Bob
On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:51, backyard wrote: >modems are relatively cheap. And, if you put it into "call-back" mode, it becomes one of the most secure methods of doing a remote serial console; plus you have the added advantage of the remote site footing the bill for the call :-) Bo

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-17 Thread backyard
--- Ahmad Arafat Abdullah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Daniel Gerzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mo

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-17 Thread Ahmad Arafat Abdullah
> - Original Message - > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Daniel Gerzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server > Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:49:34 +0200 > > &g

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello pobox, Saturday, September 16, 2006, 8:47:04 PM, you wrote: Hello, could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single user mode on a remote server. I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot into single user mo

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-17 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello pobox, Saturday, September 16, 2006, 8:47:04 PM, you wrote: > Hello, > could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single > user mode on a remote server. > I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot > into single user mode before 'mergem

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single user mode on a remote server. I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'. The only solutio

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-16 Thread Perry Hutchison
> In order to follow the upgrade instructions in the Handbook or > /usr/src/UPDATING to the letter, you need console access to the > machine being updated. That is [a] problem ... when it's in a > hosting centre umpty dozen miles away ... > > There are essentially three possibilities. > > i) get s

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-16 Thread ke han
On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single user mode on a remote server. I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'. I

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single > user mode on a remote server. > > I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot > into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'. > > The only solution I fou

rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single user mode on a remote server. I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'. The only solution I found so far is to do 'shutdown -r now' a