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Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:26:59PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote:
> I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in
> Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for
> longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have
> to be started at least a few times every quarter.

[...]

> That means that I need to reboot the servers relatively often, and
> provide the luks passwords every time. Some times I am far away when
> this happens [...]

An interesting alternative to the serial console thing is baking
in an SSH server into the initramfs. There are small SSH servers
built for that, like Dropbear.

Upside is that you don't need any additional hardware and it's
pretty well integrated into Debian. Downside is that you need
BIOS, the bootloader and initramfs working (with the serial you
at least get a chance to fix the bootloader remotely).

https://packages.debian.org/sid/dropbear-initramfs
https://wiki.debian.org/RescueInitramfs
https://projectgus.com/2013/05/encrypted-rootfs-over-ssh-with-debian-wheezy/

Might be worth a try.

Regards
- -- t
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Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2016-09-08 21:40 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-09-08 22:00 +0200
    Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-09-08 23:50 +0200
      Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-09 00:00 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-09-08 22:30 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-08 22:40 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2016-09-09 00:40 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 07:50 +0200
    Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 09:20 +0200
      Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-09-09 14:50 +0200
  Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-09 09:40 +0200
    Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2016-09-09 20:10 +0200
      Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2016-09-09 20:50 +0200

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