Is this problem solvable?

[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Before leaving home on a visit to Italy (where I am now)
> I re-booted my server.
> I noticed that shorewall did not print out its usual messages,
> but foolishly did not check what caused this.
> Now I can ping the machine,
> but cannot ssh into it (I chose a strange port)
> or access its web-server.
> 
> My question is: given that I can ping the machine,
> is there any way I can re-boot it remotely,
> or even just re-start shorewall?

Apologies.
I clicked on "Send pending messages" in kmail
before checking on what they were.

I was already told that this problem is not only insoluble
but even unmentionable.