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, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Simpaticus.com
