My home box died while I was in the US. When I got home, it was sat part way through a reset. With that box, you have to be present to reboot it, sort of hold its hand, and switch the monitor off and on again at a key moment. Don’t ask why, I don’t know. You just do.
Once rebooted, I had a nosey through the logs, and found 503 attempts at guessing password through the ssh port. That, the unexplained reset, and the fact it took forever to boot up again, “starting the kernel based NFS demon”, was enough to convince me this machine should not be plugged in to the network.
Trouble is, I had my blog, my wiki, and loads of bits of projects on that machine, so it wasn’t a simple case of wipe it and start over.
This weekend I got hole of filezilla, an excellent FTP client, which made it suddenly a whole lot easier to update the site at my hosting provider, 34sp. So I did.
It’s just using default skins at the moment, but at least my blog is back! Huzzah!