From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 15:07:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E589716A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DBE43FFB for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.146]) by smtp.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:58:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3F7B4FF7.6020508@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:06:47 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa References: <046801c3885a$a9e028a0$0701a8c0@darryl> <6.0.0.22.0.20031001172457.04babc48@209.112.4.2> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031001172457.04babc48@209.112.4.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Oct 2003 21:58:50.0783 (UTC) FILETIME=[329042F0:01C38867] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Headless question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 22:07:34 -0000 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.