[SunRescue] Re: SS2 running headless

Paul Khoury rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Feb 11 22:59:18 CST 2001


On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:25:14 GMT, paul at anastrophe.com wrote:

>Ken Hansen writes:
>
>> A few things... 
>> 
>> 1) Runnig the machine with *no* console is not a *great*
>>    idea, but it should be OK.
>
>why do you say that? (currently running 18 servers headless and without 
>console port connected, for the last two years, and would never even 
>consider running the desktop on them since it's such a security sphincter)
>

My DNS server, lebanon.pkhoury.com, only has the built-in framebuffer, no problems, and I've
run an SS1+ headless, and that also worked okay (except that mysteriously it wouldn't
boot off the network to install Solaris one day).

Paul





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