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Date:      Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:06:47 -0500
From:      "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Headless question
Message-ID:  <3F7B4FF7.6020508@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031001172457.04babc48@209.112.4.2>
References:  <046801c3885a$a9e028a0$0701a8c0@darryl> <6.0.0.22.0.20031001172457.04babc48@209.112.4.2>

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Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 04:29 PM 01/10/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>> I installed 4.7 on a machine last weekend.  This machines main 
>> purpose is
>> just to be a mysql database server.  Do you have to do anything special
>> to run it  without a monitor (space considerations) ?
>
>
> Its handy to enable serial console access.  Add -Dh to /boot.config
>
> and in /etc/ttys
>
> ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100 on secure
>
>
>         ---Mike

And one more minor point, albeit potentially important.

If the machine won't have a keyboard attached and
will be administered remotely, turn off keyboard
warnings in the BIOS.

Can you tell I once wondered why a server never
came back after buildworld and 'shutdown -r now' ?

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.



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