On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:38:04PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Oh the Ironies of life, I actually redid my install because someone on the > list told me that there was no reason (point) to even install KDE since I > was going to use it only for Mailscanner.. > > Should I go ahead and reinstall it?
Installing X on a server is overkill, unless you plan on staring at the monitor all day. OTOH, FreeBSD also makes for a nice desktop system. Better activate sshd (Secure Shell daemon) and log into the machine from your desktop, e.g. with 'putty'. That way you can run commands like 'systat -vmstat' remotely. You can also view the logfiles by logging in remotely. If you are logged in you can also modify syslog.conf to have the system write you a message whenever certain types of error occur. You could even have the system e-mail you the error messages (unless the e-mail isn't working :-) Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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