From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id EB8101EF6EF; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:36:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vserver.gregn.net (vserver.gregn.net [174.136.110.154]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DFF91EF6DE for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:36:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vbox.gregn.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:d:6c5:ddec:349:703f:5243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vserver.gregn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8AFF1BBF for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:36:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=gregn.net; s=default; t=1412901375; bh=1w+SSJEcKw+1n+BRNE+sBQDqxaByT4ltF1RSt+VX0FU=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=m1C8cth8daA03yPHLI0dcmsEucjATgn93FawmbwMryXiKcop1bHVG4UqGlvJCotae N/0yxudK1kBo0+z4KXiDm5MNEAxp8fJtPd6R5FTmCIqmVUJs3HZD9CLYntWq5AND/p 6sAUQnC15t9axQWbaLcjk7EYdCmdvwfWd2wQkUm0= Received: from greg by vbox.gregn.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XcOCF-0000Yq-4Z for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:36:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:36:39 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: trouble shooting, was: Re: the push to get rid of CONFIG_VT in the kernel and the future of Speakup Message-ID: <20141010003639.GA27289@gregn.net> References: <87zjd64c16.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> <543593E4.5040400@gmail.com> <54359B9E.10203@verizon.net> <54359F71.3090600@gmail.com> <54369A77.6070207@math.wisc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54369A77.6070207@math.wisc.edu> X-PGP-Key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.4 at vserver X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:36:46 -0000 On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 09:23:51AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > Maybe we should change the discussion toward trouble shooting techniques. > > Suppose you are the one and only linux systems admin where you work. > You come in one morning and there are 8 people at your office door > saying they can't get to their email. You ping the email server and > get nothing. What do you do next? That depends. Is the e-mail server local, or remote in another part of the country, or world? If local, does it have speakup installed, and can it be physically accessed through a serial port/hardware synth, software speech/no serial port, or both? If remote, do you have out of band access to it which is accessible (I.E. not through VNC only)? If there isn't out of band access (really bad idea for remote machine), what is the procedure to gain access to it indirectly (I.E. call data center support, or travel there)? Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org