Unfortunately, that won't help either. I "could" drop the telnet rpm in /tmp, and have my fingers install it. But... the telnet ports are not enabled at the firewall (paranoid..). Right now, I have one way in: ftp, as a regular user. I can get something of a look around. But so far, haven't seen anything unusual. I've checked /var/run/*.pid files, and /var/lock... but there's nothing there that would affect sshd. (to bad ftp doesn't understand things like "df"...).
I might try a doctored passwd file to give my user ID root access. Then I could grab a copy of /var/log/messages, and see what the heck happened. It seems to be my only option.
Ric
Jim C wrote:
Is FTP installed? You could upoad an rpm and a script and then just have someone log in, execute the script and log out. Alternatively you could mail it to them.
Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
All;
I have an interesting challenge. Some speculation will be required to solve this one!
The situation:
Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida.
The Linux Server crashed due to a power failure (I know, it needs a UPS). When the server came back up, it came up, sans sshd. So I cannot
problemget on it to check it out. I also cannot get on to diagnose the
with sshd, because ssh is my only access (kinda a catch-22 isn't it?).
Further complicating it: I Have no one on site, that knows spit about computers, that can help. The best that can be offered is a pair of fingers, that are extremely computer illerate.
Somehow, I need to diagnose the problem, and find a way to fix it.
Any suggestions will be greatfully accepted.
Any "guesses" on what would be snagging up sshd? All I know is that it
failes to start, both on boot, and via "service sshd start". I don't know what's in the logs, I can't get to them.
I know this is vague, but it's all I have to go on at the moment.
Any suggestions, speculations, "WAGs" will be very greatfully
accepted!Also: Telnet is not installed, so enabling that is not a solution. Thank you! Ric PS: The server is running on Mandrake 8.1------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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