Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't it depend upon how long the UPS can keep the machine up.  While
we have not had many problems locally they have all been hours long.  I
am told that the newer UPS systems have a connector so the machine can
sence the triggering and go into graceful shutdown if the UPS is on too
long.  I dont know the brand however.  Perhaps this is what Hylton
needs?

CWSIV

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 02:37, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:04:24 +0200
> "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > To continue uncreasing my uptime value I would like to not have to 
> > shutdown the machine at the end of each day. However I assume the end
> > of day shutdown is not necessary on a linux box. The reason I want to
> > do it is that from time to time we have power outages and power
> > outages are not nice to a logged on running linux system.
> > 
> > I am wondering if there is any state I could leave the machine at to 
> > ensure that it can be brought back again, should the power fail whilst
> > I am sleeping? My current thoughts are to issue the command 'init 1'
> > but then should the 'attacker' guess my root password I am finished.
> > 
> > Yes I am paranoid and the machine is on a dial up connection to my ISP
> > 
> > with dynamic IP allocation from my ISP.
> > 
> > I wonder which is the safest method to leave a machine, init 1 or 
> > powered off. any comments?
> > 
> > -- 
> > The Little Helper
> I leave my desktop on 24x7. The power is stable here, but, for the most
> part, if the system is idle, a power failure generally will not cause
> any damage. If you have a journaling file system, such as Reiser, then
> the restart will be relatively quick.