Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?
oremanj at get-linux.org
oremanj at get-linux.org
Wed Jul 23 14:36:33 PDT 2003
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:28:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, sedwards at qrwsoftware.com wrote:
>
> I get the same Segmentation fault when I try to run dmesg. I'm using the
> bash shell. Oddly enough I can run sh though. Another odd thing if I try
> to use cat with bash I get:
>
> -bash: cat: command not found
>
> but I get this if I run cat from sh:
>
> cat: no such device or address
Wild guess: do you have LD_PRELOAD set? Quick test:
unset LD_PRELOAD
cat /dev/null
-- Josh
>
> Thanks
> -Scott
>
>
> Quoting Rus Foster <rghf at fsck.me.uk>:
>
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 sedwards at qrwsoftware.com wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello I have a remote machine running FreeBSD 4.8 that runs my
> > internet
> > > radio station (http://www.itsallgoodradio.com) and it has gone wacky.
> > It
> > > will be several hours before anyone can get to it to reboot it. I
> have
> > a
> > > ssh login prompt that is still live, but anytime I try to execute a
> > > command I get either a Segmentation Fault or if I try to "su" I get an
> > > Abort trap. If I try to ssh into it now I get:
> > >
> > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> > OK can you run dmesg at all? I guess you can. Which shell are you
> > running
> > as you might be able to use some of the builtin commands
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Rus
> >
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