Do I need monitor, mouse, keyboard?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 08:41 -0500, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On the box on which I run Apache and a few
> other daemons, I virtually never use the
> monitor, keyboard, or mouse.  I maintain
> the box over ssh.  Is there any reason I
> have to keep these peripherals plugged in
> to the box?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Mike.
> 

If your BIOS support head-less operation, there's no need to attach the
machine to keyboard/monitor/etc.
You may want to setup serial console though [1]. 

- Gilboa
[1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/