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)"
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.