> > > I don't see how that could be because I was able to log in when the > > > system was freshly booted yesterday. I'll grab a monitor and keyboard > > > from the garage, have a look, and report back here. > > > > when I have problems with ssh, I run another instance in debug mode: > > > > In one terminal (local box): > > > > /usr/sbin/sshd -p 2222 -d > > > > from remote box: > > > > ssh $machine -p 2222 > > > > then you can look at the output from the local box to see what's going on. > > > > very handy. > > As well as checking the firewall and syslog messages on the server. > > Here's another long shot: If your physical network (cables, connectors, etc) > are playing up you could be dropping packets, which will leave TCP > connections hanging and cause the maximum connection limit to be reached. > ifconfig should show errors in this case.
I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints "INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/shutdown". I'm going to do a hard reset and we'll see what happens. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
