Re: Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:

> On 6/30/11, Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I actually relied for a while on the last choice. I had a remotely 
>> accessible root shell that never logged out. When things got 
>> sluggish, I was able to /bin/kill to my heart's content. It wasn't 
>> a pretty solution, but it kept me running until I was able to solve 
>> the problem properly.
>
> Would this work without the OOB hardware? E.g. if I leave a detached 
> screen'd SSH session open from another server, then ionice + nice 
> that shell on the problem server?

I wouldn't rely on that setup.

In my case, the problem server was connected to a Digi console server 
via its serial port. On another (non-problematic server), I opened a 
screen session and connected to the console on the problem server. I 
had to adjust some timeouts here and there to ensure an eternal 
console. :-)

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/
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