On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:45:47 +0000, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 01:41pm on Saturday, December 02, 2006 (UK time), Mike - EMAIL IGNORED scrawled: > >> 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? > > None at all - that what I do. > > Well nearly. The bios on some machones halts the boot process during > post unless a keyboard is plugged in. So one of my older machines just > has an old keyboard plugged in. > > I suggest you remove all but the monitor and check it still reboots OK. > If it does, the monitor can then be safely removed. > > Steve > > -- [...] Reboot? Why would I want to do that? top shows 283 days :) . Do you think that there would be any other problem? Mike.