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
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:04:24 +0200
"Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)"