[OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF service that should not shutdown with the OS

[Jim Klimov]

On 2014-06-15 15:01, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:09:09AM +0200, Jim Klimov wrote:
>>
>> For a practical use-case, consider an SSH or Telnet service that
>> is used for remote management of the box. The shutdown procedure
>> may stall for a number of reasons. An admin wants to intervene
>> for investigation or to force a ruder reboot/halt, but has no
>> way to do so because the remote shell server has already died...
>> uncool :)
>
> What you need here is a remote console.

That's for sure, in general.

But on this box it does not have telnet (or rather, it has either
telnet or ssh - but not both at the same time), so I can not "telnet"
from our Cisco router to the firewall/vpn/infrastructure server's
RSC, and the Cisco SSH command (as of that firmware at least) does
not support connections into a non-default VRF (routing table).
I can however "telnet" anywhere, and I've put up a private VLAN where
this server can listen for "insecure" telnet accesses from this Cisco.
So it is all complicated :)

//Jim