My headless unit (which www.RoseFire.org and www.AMason.net run on) is a
Mandrake 2.2 kernel distro. It is an HTTPS & E-Mail server (with DNS
running). 

It has only come down once (when, while running a secure shell in a
terminal, I gave the command to reboot my home box in the wrong terminal
session - oops!). It has been up for about 100 days now, but it doesn't have
a lot of traffic either. 

It has been stable though; I generally get 0 to 4 port connect attempts a
week ( 0 successful, so far, perhaps because no real serious cracker has
tried, perhaps not ). There is also a (FreeBSD) server that is set to scan
all my "well known" ports every 15 minutes and page me if certain ports
stop/start responding.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike@illiana.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:10 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org; Kirk.Taylor@qwest.com; mohoel@bigfoot.com
> Subject: RE: Which (RH or MDK) for bare http server?
> 
> 
> For headless units (which www.kclug.org runs on) I am using 
> the stock debian
> distribution which in my opinion is the most reliable distro 
> out there.
> You need reliability if you are going to leave a box unattended.
> 
> The box has no monitor, keyboard & mouse.  In the event of 
> something stupid
> happening with the box, my ISP has ttyS0 connected to a PM2 
> that I can ssh
> into via a sun box.  I've serialized my lilo so in the rare 
> event of a crash
> and the box comes up in single user mode (like a failed 
> e2fsck), I can connect
> to the serial port, fix it, and then log in.  This works 
> great too if the box
> loses network connectivity for whatever reason.  The serial 
> lilo though is the
> key to a quicker recovery, it is worth putting on just about 
> any box you want
> to deploy in the field.  
> 
> 	Mike Neuliep
> 
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