Is this problem solvable?

Seann Clark nombrandue at tsukinokage.net
Wed Jan 7 14:43:42 UTC 2009


Chris Snook wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Before leaving home on a visit to Italy (where I am now)
>> I re-booted my server.
>> I noticed that shorewall did not print out its usual messages,
>> but foolishly did not check what caused this.
>> Now I can ping the machine,
>> but cannot ssh into it (I chose a strange port)
>> or access its web-server.
>>
>> My question is: given that I can ping the machine,
>> is there any way I can re-boot it remotely,
>> or even just re-start shorewall?
>
> If there is, it's a very serious bug.
>
> -- Chris
>
To do it yourself would be a bad bad bug, as Chris mentioned. Now, doing 
it the manual way, if you have a person available that has physical 
access to the server, you can reboot it remotely, and restart shorewall 
rather easily and without a bad security hole.




~Seann
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