Do I need monitor, mouse, keyboard?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:41, 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

They don't seem to be needed until something goes aglay and you need a 
local console to troubleshoot.  That said, I've seen some bios's tha 
would not proceed if the keyboard was unplugged.  Dumb bios IMO.

I'm running DD-WRT on an old 500MHZ Compaq, completely headless.

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