On Saturday 07 March 2009 05:10 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Does your datacenter provide you with a remote connectable power > strip so that you can cycle the power?
It's a moot point. This job is/was part of a contract that I've put in my notice on. $900/monthly, but because of the way they operate, it wasn't worth it to me, and I was continually exhausted. But not for this server. They promised me they'd send me a power switch that I could install, but they never did. I don't think it would matter because they never sent me login information for the power switches they did have. > Do you have remote console on the Linux box? No. Never needed them. In the last eight years only twice did we have to visit a data center because a reboot didn't get us back on line so we could fix whatever problems existed. And in fact less than ten times we had to hard power reboot anything in our own cabinet, which does have remote power control. > What is it on the Linux box that's causing it to lock up so > frequently? No idea. Their client's client would never give us root access so we could look at the box. I know we could have done a local single-user-mode reboot and change it, or even look at the system but if a client' won't let us have root, then I don't want to go into the system. It seemed to be a good contract, and gave me access to a cage for growth. But the actual work just wasn't for me, living 60 miles from the DC. I'm still negotiating the cabinet (which comes from them) and the use of the cage, but I don't know where that's going until some time next week. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
