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Archive for February 16th, 2010

Starting a text-based program on a headless box at boot time

Imagine yourself in the following situation:
You have a “headless” (this means: without a monitor attached) server that boots nicely, starts all the services you configured, like dns, ntp, nfs, samba, httpd, mysql, etc. But – since it has processing power left and stays on 24×7, you decide that it could do something extra that you [...]

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