On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 13:00, Christopher Lyon wrote: > The issue is since these are in telco closets the telco A$% holes are > pulling the power to move them around. Granted they are only running > VPN, routing and some IDS services so data loss isn't a really big deal > but I just don't want these boxes to blow up. I guess I could put an LCD > on then and put a shutdown that will do a shutdown now.
If you aren't running any big userland applications, then chances are you'll be okay. Believe me, I've had my desktop go down (before I got a UPS) several times and the worst that has happened has been some of my emails were not marked as "read" when I just did. The danger is always what *could* happen. If you're mostly using these boxes as routers/firewalls then I wouldn't expect any problem as long as you're running a journalled FS. If you're *not* running a journalled fs, then you'll probably have some long fsck's coming on reboot. And killing a non-journalled system *can* corrupt the filesystem itself, although that's not that common either. > I just wanted to know what was going to happen. The telco guys are > contractors and there is no dedicated computer room since there are no > servers at these sites. So I am a little SOL on telling these guys not > to do it. The cases are also not PC based. If these boxes are on a network, why can't you ssh to them and shut them down? Or is it that you don't know *when* they are getting moved and have to have them up as much as possible? -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
