The Wednesday 2004-03-17 at 18:50 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Are you using the computer 24/7? Is anybody else? Is this machine providing services to others? No, No.
If not, power off. Less wear on motors (fans), less noise, less heat, less electricity spent, and last but not least, less global warming.
(If that seems unimportant, just multiply by millions of users...) I see. The main reason I do not want to power down each time I leave the PC is that the next time I power up the machine may not boot up like I am expecting or as it was the last time I was using it. That is the only reason I would like to keep it running, asides from being a green linux newbie and not knowing what to do, without access to this list.
Well... I always power off, this and every computer I use or ever used (server excepted), and I saw no harm in years. If something breaks at power on/off, it would break any way later: I prefer it to break down before I start the day work, and not in the middle, destroying my work.
In terms of me specifying the runlevel, I meant, which is the safest runlevel to leave a machine at if not being used and not connected to the internet?
1 or 2, no network access. And a keylock at the room to avoid local access, with an armed guard at the door :-P
For you Carlos I know runlevel 0 but that does not help me keep the machine uptime increasing, which is the primary aim of this exercise.
A big uptime on a machine that does nothing, means nothing. You could set up a windows machine doing nothing, and the uptime would also be long. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson