| Nick R on Sun, 1 Aug 1999 04:27:34 -0400 (EDT) |
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Today (well, now so late it's yesterday) I got & ran doom which promptly proceeded to alter every key on my computer including keys such as alt, ctrl, & return. Fortunately I thought to telnet in and reboot gracefully. The thing is that even though this problem caused my keyboard to mess up & X to hang I was still able to exert control remotely. It got me started to wondering how many of the very few (one for me ever) crashes under linux could be averted by telnetting in. That's some pretty simple stuff working there & if the telnet daemon can run ps & kill w/o all the overhead of things like xterm & X bogging things down then I'd think that you could recover from somewhat severe looking problems during which the normal ctrl-alt-bksp doesn't work because you don't even need your keyboard. Just a thought. Any others? (Oh, & incidentally I must've hit the right rearranged combination to log out and get back to a login prompt and I was able to use the mouse to cut and paste the letters to form root and then a carriage return from the Red Hat prompt: Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo) Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586 localhost login: The r from release, 2 o's from Apollo, on, localhost, or login, & the t from Hat, only I couldn't find enough of the characters in my password. Oh well!)
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