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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