On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:

> "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> > That hit me on a remote box last year too.
> >
> Fortunately, this time the box was only 20 minutes away, instead of 20
> hours away.  Sometimes, I think that NetBSD developers have a tendency
> to be armchair developers, concerned only with their own workstation,
> with easy single user mode access. ;-)

Some of us are quite familiar with remote debugging. :-)

To do it really well, you need serial consoles. As an added plus, serial
controlled-powerstrips are nice; if a box is really hosed, just power
cycle it.

Take care,

Bill