Todd Cole, Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:58:06AM -0400: > > I have a Debian machine that is only accessible remotely via SSH (no > keyboard or monitor attached). In order to perform filesystem maintenance > with e2fsck, I believe I need to put the machine into single-user mode, but > with SSH running. (Currently when I try to run e2fsck in run level 2 I > receive messages that the "device is busy.") > > It would seem that the best way to do this would be to remove the K20ssh > script from /etc/rc1.d and replace it with the S20ssh script from run level > 2. When I tried this, however, I still lost my ssh connection and had to > (shutter) reboot the machine via power-cycle. >
If you have physical access to the machine you can set up a serial console. Uncomment one of the examples in /etc/inittab and configure lilo to use a serial console. If your motherboard supports console redirection you can even see the POST remotely. g
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