On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 09:23:51AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > Maybe we should change the discussion toward trouble shooting techniques. > > Suppose you are the one and only linux systems admin where you work. > You come in one morning and there are 8 people at your office door > saying they can't get to their email. You ping the email server and > get nothing. What do you do next? That depends. Is the e-mail server local, or remote in another part of the country, or world? If local, does it have speakup installed, and can it be physically accessed through a serial port/hardware synth, software speech/no serial port, or both? If remote, do you have out of band access to it which is accessible (I.E. not through VNC only)? If there isn't out of band access (really bad idea for remote machine), what is the procedure to gain access to it indirectly (I.E. call data center support, or travel there)? Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
