Mildly OT from a profound BSD noob: Why is it necessary to have SSH working before the system has finished booting? That 'Welcome' menu times out, so I can't think of a reason, or find one from Goggle, for needing console access after a power failure reboot. What am I unaware of? -- Glenn English
Sendmail for one can hang for stupidly long times waiting in dead resolvers before allowing the system to continue booting. That's the most common thing, RC scripts hanging waiting on external resources while you're locked out simply because sshd starts ridiculously late. Very common problem. On Wednesday, September 23, 2015, Glenn English <ghe at slsware.net> wrote:> Mildly OT from a profound BSD noob: > > Why is it necessary to have SSH working before the system has finished > booting? That 'Welcome' menu times out, so I can't think of a reason, or > find one from Goggle, for needing console access after a power failure > reboot. What am I unaware of? > > -- > Glenn English > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org <javascript:;> mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org > <javascript:;>" >-- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 09:35:09AM -0600, Glenn English wrote:> Mildly OT from a profound BSD noob: > > Why is it necessary to have SSH working before the system has > finished booting? That 'Welcome' menu times out, so I can't think of > a reason, or find one from Goggle, for needing console access after > a power failure reboot. What am I unaware of?For fixing configuration issuse, blocking some services (ordering before sshd).
Hi. On 23.09.2015 20:35, Glenn English wrote:> Mildly OT from a profound BSD noob: > > Why is it necessary to have SSH working before the system has finished booting? That 'Welcome' menu times out, so I can't think of a reason, or find one from Goggle, for needing console access after a power failure reboot. What am I unaware of? >Because in the case of remote server the absence of sshd can prevent yoy from loggin for several minutes, even dozens of minutes, and this can be pretty harmful in a production environment. Eugene.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015, at 10:35, Glenn English wrote:> Mildly OT from a profound BSD noob: > > Why is it necessary to have SSH working before the system has finished > booting? That 'Welcome' menu times out, so I can't think of a reason, or > find one from Goggle, for needing console access after a power failure > reboot. What am I unaware of? >My favorite example is when an NFS issue delays boot indefinitely and you can't even SSH in to whack it with a hammer. -- Mark Felder ports-secteam member feld at FreeBSD.org