On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 at 10:19, Mark Anthony J. Mercado wrote:
>there could be problems doing this in the long run. there might be
>temporary files left around if processes are terminated this way (ie
>kde, enlightenment and lots of others) and eventually eat up a
>significant amount of disk space. I also send SIGKILL only as a last
>option. :(
I definitely agree with you. And while I'm using ReiserFS on all my Linux
boxes (uhh ... all ... three of them, what a puny statistic, hahaha!), I
still do clean shutdowns when I can. The stability/security of ReiserFS
because of its journalling is there as a "just in case".
>IMHO, there is still no substituted to a really good ups (used with
>apcupsd, or better yet a back up generator)
Talking about UPSs, I'm hoping to get an APC Smart-UPS to replace my
Back-UPS Pro which does not have "smart signalling" capabilities. AFAIR
APC has its own PowerChute Plus for Linux, and then there's the GNU APC
UPSd. What would you guys/gals recommend, and why? I need a UPSd for the
following (in order of priority):
1. Clean shutdowns only when the battery is at critical level (ie:
estimated 10 minutes remaining).
2. Monitoring of UPS battery health and expected life via software (so I
can find out how much longer my server should stay alive from anywhere I
am by simply dialling up and logging on).
Hmm ... ?
TIA! :-)
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