running a server headless/keyboardless?

[Michael Laccetti]

I have a few machines sitting in my office that I generally only
shell/RDP/VNC to.  Of course, the contractors have been randomly working on
the house I live in, and the power outages were starting to drive me insane.
Hated having to grab the keyboard and monitor cables, go digging behind the
stacks to plug them in.  I just invested in a KVM, and have been using that
to take care of everything since then.

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From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Henry
Spencer
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:48 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: running a server headless/keyboardless?



On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On many machines there is.  Usually called 'stop on errors' (set to
> none), or keyboardless operation, or something like that.  Some dumb
> desktop machines from some stupid name brand companies don't allow it
> though, and a few stupid servers have even not allowed it in the past.

If one is willing to spend money on dealing with such stupidity, there is
(or was -- haven't kept current) at least one company that sells a little
widget that plugs into a keyboard port and pretends to be a keyboard,
precisely to convince stupid BIOSes that there really is one there.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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