On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > Here me English is lacking, atleast I can't parse the above. ... > Yeah, I did say something weird there :) > ...sniped the explanation
Okee, I see. In my experience most linux related things go swell with a headless box. Bootup selections are easily handled over the serial line, (root) login over the serial line is almost like the console but for the fact that I haven't managed yet to get minitel to deal with colors nor to pass on Home, Page-up, Ctrl-Alt-Del, etc keys. Not that big of a problem for me, as I very often log in onto such system with ssh over the ethernet from a normal console or from an xterm. The one thing that's really troublesome is things the BIOS tries to tell, like the other day I had a harddisk start to fail, and the BIOS tolled me so thanks to S.M.A.R.T. But on a headless system such messages would have been invisible, and depending on your BIOS you have a change that the BIOS will keep waiting for you to press a key:(, preventing it to complete the booting. There is some S.M.A.R.T. aware software under linux, but I haven't tried it out yet. So yes it works. Have it hooked up onto your local network to easily access the servers using ssh (and X-forwarding), use a serial line for boot control and root access, enable S.M.A.R.T. under linux, and prey the linux S.M.A.R.T. software detects harddisk failures before the BIOS does. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]