I'm a little late, but for future reference: Do you have the machine set up so it boots to a default (useful) system? If so you could try just rebooting from the ssh session. I've done this before with my system (for various reasons).
-D On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:36:27PM -0500, Dan Brosemer wrote: [snip] | Can anyone suggest a means of either killing the offending perl processes | (unlikely -- owned by root) or rebooting the machine? I could gain access | to the console tomorrow, but today is Sunday. |