In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I will shortly be taking a two week vacation, and sadly, I have to leave my > trusty box behind *schniff* .. It has to stay running, however, because a > local user group relies on it for mail and web serving. There is no one else > who will have access to the machine, so I need to ensure that it will stay > up no matter what. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I should tweak the > system to make sure it behaves? I have the obligatory UPS, and on the event > of a kernel panic, it'll reboot itself after a ten second delay, but is > there anything else? > > I'd be interested in hearing any ideas you may have.
Just make sure that your UPS daemon does the right thing during a powerdown... doesn't send a halt signal until you are sure that the UPS has received a cycle-power signal. I've seen power-strips that allow you to cycle-power from a touch tone phone, but that may be overkill in your case. Consider the following and take heart: [portal]$ uptime 1:50am up 205 days, 13:05, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.00 -Mitch
