Evan Klitzke wrote: > On 6/7/06, David CHANIAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> in my head, i think server == dedicated server >> in fact i really think that after gentoo install (by img or livecd) no >> keyboard, no mouse, no screen. just sshd and ssh connection. > > Not having a keyboard/screen could be very bad. Sure.
> There are a lot of > things that could break that would lock you out of the system. If you > forget the root password, you can't boot into single user mode and fix > it. If sshd breaks you can't fix things. If you break networking, or > new firewall settings prevent you from logging in with ssh, you can't > easily fix it. Keyboard and screen drivers don't take up a lot of > space, and they are well worth it when things go wrong.\ So you keep all your servers under your pillow right? It is very common to have servers colocated a few hundred km/miles/whatever away. In such a situation you start looking at upgrades with very different feelings. Especially if it comes to changes in the boot process, udev et. al. cheers Paul BTW: To make this post slightly more on topic I request the inclusion of "sasl" useflag in the server profile. That said, the current useflags seem to be very php inspired/specific. Is there a bug for discussion of possible useful defaults? -- [email protected] mailing list
