 | | | Got Ping? | Got Ping? 2002-08-23 - By Chris Kloiber
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On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 09:59, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Once upon a time, Joe wrote :
>
> > On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 02:46, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> >
> > > boot: linux init=/bin/bash
> >
> > Yeah, but it saved my Keven Bacon a few months ago. The CoLo site
> > when
> > the server is located took a big power hit. The system came back up but
> > one of the filesystems/partitions was badly hosed. When fsck ran in the
> > boot-up it bitched about needing to drop to single user mode to fix. It
> > then asks for the root password. Well... I had stopped using "su - " in
> > favor of "sudo " and hadn 't used the root passwd for _ever_. OC, I
> > couldn 't remember what it was and neither could the friend who is my
> > "backup brain " for occasions like this. A quick google and I found a
> > simple solution -
> >
> > * Boot with the above
> > * mount /usr
> > * fsck the offending partition
> > * reboot
> >
> > I really love Linux. :-)
>
> And you forgot :
> * Change the root password
> * Write down the new root password on a paper
> * Lock the paper with the root password inside a safe
> * Take another paper and write down 100 times :
> "I will not loose my root password and I will keep it in a safe place "
> * Give that paper to your "backup brain " telling him to do the same
Come to think about it, the last time I talked someone through this
procedure the colo was in the far East (depending on your orientation of
course, it 's probably considered 'down ' north from the land of OZ), and
the professional Windows-Rebooter I had to talk through this was named
Mr. Ping. What a fantastic name for that job.
--
Chris Kloiber
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