Re: Is this problem solvable?

[Seann Clark <nombrandue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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