On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:58:30PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 03:06:10PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote: > > I hope to place a PC running Etch in our small (tiny, actually) > > airport building for use by pilots. The PC will be used to access > > perhaps 10 web sites (plus or minus) over a DSL connection and to run > > a few utilities to show GMT and a calculator and maybe a few > > additional applications. The box will also serve as a real-time data > > collection platform and web server for a local weather observing > > system, so I want to prevent it from being re-booted. > > > > Be very careful. These are two very different applications to put on > one box. You don't want the weather reports to stop going out if the > desktop freezes the box. A box that runs X, is almost by definition > more prone to needing to reboot than one that doesn't. Ditto if you use > a Desktop environment instead of a simple window manager. > > If you really need it to be one box, here's what I would suggest: > > Set up the server stuff first. > > Setup a chroot for the desktop stuff, one that gets copied when used.
maybe this is a good use for xen. Run the desktop stuff, whatever you decide in a xen dom-u to segregate it from the main server. A
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