TankieTanuki [he/him]cake to memes • edit-21 month agoPhotographs of me about to edit the firewall on my webserver knowing that any mistake could lock me out of SSH until the technicians in Germany arrive at the datacenter on Monday (2024)imagemessage-square11 fedilinkarrow-up190
arrow-up190imagePhotographs of me about to edit the firewall on my webserver knowing that any mistake could lock me out of SSH until the technicians in Germany arrive at the datacenter on Monday (2024)TankieTanuki [he/him]cake to memes • edit-21 month agomessage-square11 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareChronicon [they/them]hexbear5·1 month agoouch no backup way in? most hosts have a serial console or rescue image or something you can boot to to fix this kind of thing. onsite technicians fixing software problems is very 90s/early 2000s link
minus-squareTankieTanuki [he/him]cakehexagonhexbear3·1 month agoIt's a dedicated server so the only way to boot a rescue OS is in-person (afaik). link
minus-squareChronicon [they/them]hexbear2·1 month agodepends on the provider, but that may well be true for your provider yeah link
ouch no backup way in? most hosts have a serial console or rescue image or something you can boot to to fix this kind of thing. onsite technicians fixing software problems is very 90s/early 2000s
It's a dedicated server so the only way to boot a rescue OS is in-person (afaik).
depends on the provider, but that may well be true for your provider yeah