From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:16:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <af6983a07b96884a6d95cc652f65700c.squirrel@www.antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGVw0ao-FxxSwuMj9oAiHdsN_gX0WnJBiSRsJ+8n3kwnfg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, December 8, 2011 5:01 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2011 9:46 PM, "Jarry" <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something
>> and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it
>> on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be
>> updated is just enough to cause it...
>>
>
> That's why I no longer deploy baremetal servers these days. Always as a
> VM
> on top of a hypervisor, with a small VM dedicated as an SSH tunnel. If I
> mess up, I can use the hypervisor management tool to reboot the VM, or
> open
> a console session, or even revert to a "known good" state.
A seperate machine with serial-console or Ethernet-KVM on the mainboard
also helps. Especially when updating the host :)
My new servers will all have Ethernet-KVM for this reason.
--
Joost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-08 11:17 [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1? Jarry
2011-12-08 11:26 ` James Broadhead
2011-12-08 12:44 ` Alex Schuster
2011-12-08 14:41 ` Jarry
2011-12-08 14:54 ` James Broadhead
2011-12-08 14:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-08 15:27 ` Albert W. Hopkins
2011-12-08 15:34 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-12-08 16:01 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-09 7:16 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2011-12-09 9:45 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-09 14:57 ` Stroller
2011-12-09 16:13 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-12-09 0:23 ` JD Horelick
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