How to setup a headless machine

[Arthur Pemberton]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:

>On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:27 am, dan flailed at a keyboard and produced 
>this:
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>>Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>>Out of curiousity, I'd like to know what are the better ways to setup
>>>and run a headless (monitor less) machine with FC3.
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>>>I'm going to setup a third linux box in my room, and thought it would be
>>>nice to learn and try out.
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>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Peace
>>>Arturo
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>>Just make sure it's accessable over the network, and you're set.
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>>If it's goign to run X, and you really want a GUI, I'd suggest looking
>>into VNC.
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>>One thing to remember, make sure the machine doesn't halt if it doesn't
>>detect a keyboard.  This way, you can reboot it without having to have a
>>kbd in it.
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>>I run several machines like this, without a mouse, kbd, or monitor.
>>Hell, they don't even have video cards.
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>I've got an old RH8 machine sitting on my desk which is essentially headless, 
>since the monitor and mouse and keyboard are all hooked up to a LuMiX box 
>which I have yet to get working.  I haven't managed to get VNC Server working 
>on it, but since it just sits around and serves up web pages and mail and 
>files, I don't really need a GUI for it.  I just SSH into from another 
>computer when I want to update it or do some system administration.
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Thanks for that tip. But I know running without GUI would be easy.