configuring FC as a headless server

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:39, Allen Winter wrote:
> Some thoughts based on recent experience:
>  - UPS!
>  - make sure the UPS is not 7 years old with a dead battery. i.e,  regular maintenance and monitoring
>  - use journaled filesystems.  that way you'll be less likely to need to drag out the Keyboard/Video/Mouse just
>     to perform fsck when the system looses power (in my case I had bad UPS and a power outage.. but someone
>    could kick-out the plug by mistake too)

Or spend the $150 roughly for a good Avocent 4-port KVM and cables
(cables from Newegg are cheap and good). Then you always have that
solution available when needed, also good for testing/config of new
boxes.

Cheers,

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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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