Re: tlug: Re: Aptiva 520

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Jonathan Q wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Tony Laszlo wrote:
> 
> > Are there any benefits of using an APM kernel on a server 
> > like this one?
> 
> It probably doesn't have any APM features.  And even if it does, I
> wouldn't be inclined to use them on a server.  A server's first job is
> to be super stable and to be ready all the time.  Although APM is
> probably quite stable (I don't follow it closely, but I haven't heard
> any claims to the contrary), just as a precaution I wouldn't run it on a
> server.

Oh, I don't know, the Sun Ultra 5/10/30/60/etc servers that we use here
all do it.  But, then again, Solaris only has to deal with Sun's bios, not
a big fscking mess of 3rd party BS like the x86 world.. sigh.

It's nice having something like a Netra t1 105 with serial console,
though, so when your people at the remote server locations accidentally do
an 'init 5' because they think they're starting up X because runlevel 5 is
the xdm login level on their Redhat box at home... well, on Solaris,
runlevel 5 is 'halt and poweroff'.

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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