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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
