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.
I've run machines for years that are "headless" in my case I've gone
one step further and even removed the video card (not all machines allow
you to work without the video card)
Once the machine is installed, I configure grub to use a serial
console. When the machine boots, grub will present the boot menu via
the serial port. This way you can connect another machine directly to
its serial port or even via a modem (they still make those? :-) )
Here's the grub.conf from a FC4 system I'm running:
#boot=/dev/hda
# below added for serial console
#
password --md5 **PASSWORD HASH HERE**
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal --timeout=10 serial
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#
# end serial console
#
default=0
timeout=5
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2142_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/
console=ttyS0,9600n8
initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img
