Les Mikesell wrote: > It is fairly difficult to imagine a box that is still running today that couldn't handle a GUI
The 42 servers I manage range in age from old to new, Fedora 4 thru 12, ubuntu, and Windows. None will ever see a "user" who would benefit from a GUI ... only me remoting in to tweak/repair. I've been content to manage them all without GUIs for years and just never bothered to load one. This is actually the first time I ever ran across a problem. I always choose the NO GUI options where possible. IMHO GUIs are great for users but unnecessary overhead on servers. Three of the boxes are Windows so I have no choice there. I must be in the minority since there appears to be no call for a web version of watch-mimedefang. I'll have to give up on the cgywin as it took half a day (and 1G of hard drive space) to attempt to set up the logistics for it and I still can't establish the ssh relationship necessary for it to work. I also tried xming. I ran the install. Then whenever I run the launcher, it prompts me for a few things then promtply disappears. If anyone has gotten xming and watch-mimedefang to work and is willing to share a bit more detail I'd love to give it another try. Thanks :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 5:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang Michael Sims wrote: > Cliff Hayes wrote: >> For this idea, don't I have to have a GUI OS installed on the linux >> box I'll be remoting into? > > I did a test install on a spare Ubuntu box I had here, and yes, when I ask > apt to install vnc4server, it wants to pull down a ton of packages, > including several xserver* ones. So if a small footprint on the server side > is important to you this may not be the route to go... You need to have the X code and window manager installed but not necessarily running on the console. It is fairly difficult to imagine a box that is still running today that couldn't handle a GUI, seeing as how virtually everything shipped in the last 15 years has been designed for, and usually shipped with MS windows. If you are running something that old/limited, I'd recommend replacing it with a VMware guest on some more modern box and saving some power. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
