On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:35:33 -0600 (CST) Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Josh Trutwin wrote: > > My business partner and I were on IM managing something over > > phpMyAdmin when I noticed the "system going down now" reboot > > message on my SSH console. WTF? Starting to get nervous. > > <...> > > > A few more minutes go by and get an IM from my buddy - ISP called > > back, power cord was loose. ARG! At least they were quick about > > finding it. Makes sense now but during the episode I was thinking > > much worse. > > Actually, loose power cord wouldn't give you the reboot messages; > it'd just crash the box hard if it was losing the connection. > > Sounds more like someone hooked a keyboard up to the wrong box and > was hitting ctrl-alt-del to try to reboot it to me - might want to > disable ca in inittab.. I thought it sounded fishy too, but I went by what I was told. Perhaps I'll have to do more researching. Thanks for the tip, Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list