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Re: How to make "headless" system?

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On 11/7/15 3:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, 
> fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have 
> "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res 
> monitors of 800x600 at best. Also, they are all in the basement, which 
> is a trip I don't like to make very often!
>
> I want to force these systems to support hi-res 1680x1050 or better so 
> I can VNC to them from my main machine and be able to use graphic 
> software to operate and maintain these machines.
>
> Right now I mostly use ssh and it can be a real pain!
>
> Can anybody tell me how to accomplish this or point me to a "How To" 
> somewhere?
>

As someone else pointed out, you can always use X-windows over SSH.

But, speaking as someone who administers lots of servers - the command 
line rules. GUIs are for amateurs.

  If you really want to use graphical tools to manage servers, use some 
kind of client-server tool like Nagios.

Miles Fidelman

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

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How to make "headless" system? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2015-11-07 21:50 +0100
  Re: How to make "headless" system? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-11-07 23:00 +0100
  Re: How to make "headless" system? Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-11-07 23:00 +0100
  Re: How to make "headless" system? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2015-11-08 05:10 +0100
  Re: How to make "headless" system? Matt Ventura <mattventura@mattventura.net> - 2015-11-09 19:10 +0100
    Re: How to make "headless" system? X <lists04@fastmail.fm> - 2015-11-09 22:30 +0100
      Re: How to make "headless" system? Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-11-11 12:20 +0100

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