On Mon, Jun 16, 2003, Shaul Karl wrote about "Re: Installng Hebrew on a brand new server": > Assuming that the server is in the Technion and that the developer is > Shlomo Yona and he is in the somewhat remote haifa.ac.il, wouldn't it > be worth it to install a dedicated phone line for the server and have > the server use a serial console in addition to ssh? I can see the desire
According to my experience, this is not worth the hassle. Ssh will work in every case except (the reasons I can think of off the top of my head): 1. When the computer locks up or the kernel is misinstalled. 2. Hardware trouble. 3. Ssh is incorrectly installed. 4. The network isn't working In cases #1, #2, a serial console would not be of any help. In case #4, he wouldn't care about the problem anyway (if the network isn't working, the server is useless). Issue #3 is valid, but is very rarely an issue except in bizarre situations (like a broken glibc upgrade that Redhat release a few months ago...). I doubt the trip to the Technion is so complicated that he'll ned to worry about this case. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Jun 16 2003, 16 Sivan 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Corduroy pillows - they're making http://nadav.harel.org.il |headlines! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
