Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:55:19 +0600 (ESS) From: "Ilia E. Chipitsine" <ilia@cgu.chel.su> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005212239350.8494-100000@mail.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <20000521122900.E96573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> > that PC is supposed to work without a display, without a keyboard, > > the nearest place where they can find anybody who ever heard about 'fsck' > > is probably 5km away. > > Then it _needs_ a UPS that can tell it to shutdown cleanly when power > goes out. obviously it must have APM support besides UPS. for instance, without APM support, UPS tells it to shut down, system comes to a state with "press any key to reboot", accidently power restores and boxen remains to be "neither dead nor alive", with "press any key to reboot" on her screen :-) BTW, did anybody hear about UPS which might be placed into 5" slot ?! > > There is also the option of mounting most filesystems read-only. That > way, they never get corrupted in the first place. I don't know the > function of this box, but you could have the root and usr partitions something like InBusiness eMail Station from Intel it does work, 486/4Mb+200Mb HDD, serves well as dial-out server, firewall, DHCP, named, simple web-management, UUCP, SOCKS, imap4, IP masquerading. the only we were afraid of running squid on 4Mb of RAM :-) just today, I hacked 'moused' a bit, so I can assign different actions on mouse clicks. for example "left button" - safely shuts system down, "middle button" - establishes or drops ppp connection, "right button" - initiates UUCP exchange. Tommorow I'm planning to put a mouse inside a boxen, so I need only buttons to be accessible. > read-only, and then have var writable and possibly some /usr/data or > whatever as well. Make it so the system can boot into multi-user from > read-only filesystems. > > Anyway, that's just an idea. I know people set up boxes to run > unattended and with limited failure modes. There may be someone out > there with a good way to set up such a system. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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