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Evan Klitzke wrote: |
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> On 6/7/06, David CHANIAL <david.ml@××××××××.fr> wrote: |
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>> in my head, i think server == dedicated server |
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>> in fact i really think that after gentoo install (by img or livecd) no |
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>> keyboard, no mouse, no screen. just sshd and ssh connection. |
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> Not having a keyboard/screen could be very bad. |
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Sure. |
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> There are a lot of |
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> things that could break that would lock you out of the system. If you |
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> forget the root password, you can't boot into single user mode and fix |
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> it. If sshd breaks you can't fix things. If you break networking, or |
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> new firewall settings prevent you from logging in with ssh, you can't |
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> easily fix it. Keyboard and screen drivers don't take up a lot of |
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> space, and they are well worth it when things go wrong.\ |
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So you keep all your servers under your pillow right? It is very common |
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to have servers colocated a few hundred km/miles/whatever away. In such |
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a situation you start looking at upgrades with very different feelings. |
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Especially if it comes to changes in the boot process, udev et. al. |
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cheers |
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Paul |
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BTW: To make this post slightly more on topic I request the inclusion of |
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"sasl" useflag in the server profile. That said, the current useflags |
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seem to be very php inspired/specific. Is there a bug for discussion of |
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possible useful defaults? |
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