According to Alexei V. Ovsiannikov: While burning my CPU.
>
> About an hour ago I had to work directly with a mail server running Linux
> without monitor and keyboard. When I attached monitor and keyboard without
> rebooting the machine, video card was working OK (i.e. I could see some
> messages on the screen , but no promt), but the keyboard seemed not to be
> working at all. What i did wrong and what should I do to be able to work on
> a machine like that?
>
I have such a machine, if i plug the keyboard back in it works fine, it does
not matter if it was absent for one day or one month, as to no prompt, thats
possably because setterm is blanking the screen and waiting for a key stroke
from a keyboard which it is not getting, so therefore you will not see the
prompt.
As to why the keyboard did not work, all i can say is it should, unless your
running some old kernel where there were problems with machines with no
keyboard, but that i doubt.
Anyway, there is no real need to have direct access to a machine if you know
the root passwd, you can always access it remotely.
Before my comments bring up "the security thread issue" use ssh, if its not
on the remote machine then it should be.
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Regards Richard.
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