Re: OT: Any Red hat heads here?

[Tony Butler <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting Shaf Ali <shaf@xxxxxxx>:

> > > Do a netstat -l for me.
>
> Should still be able to by excuting su - (su to root whilst under
SSH).

You misunderstand - my problem ATM is no access to the box, remote or
otherwise
(apart from the firewall blocking SSH issue from work, there is also the
fact
that I did not turn it on again after the powercut last night - and it was
only
yesterday while fiddly with the box that I turned off the bios option to
boot
up after lost power is restored coz I'd never need it coz we never have
power
cuts :))

> I guess you're at work and your machine at home is firewalled such
that you
> can't get to the VNC port.
> It's been over 3 years since I used VNC for X but I believe you could
log in
> via the web version of VNC as any user.

Still needs port 5900 though.  Yes, is blocked from work.

> Anyway do play with it and also have a play with running an Xserver as
> others have indicated... As for me I'm strictly a shell man - it would
be an
> idea for you to get comfortable with using a shell and to understand
where
> things are on the filesystem etc.

too much pain for too little gain man!  I have no idea what I'm going to do
with this box really, but it needs to involve the minimum amount of effort
since I have bugger all free time......

> Imagine being on a beach and you're SMS'd with problems on your
server.....
> all you have is a PDA and a mobile you dont really want to be messing
around
> with Xservers/VNC under such a situation. SSH in - sort the problem -
keep
> SWMBO happy....done.

To keep SWMBO happy, I'd need to
a) not have brought my mobile/pda/anything else in the first place
b) promise to look after the sprogs for the entire holiday myself
c) give her a couple of grand to spend on health/beauty products

:(

Cheers,

T.