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/