From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from executioner.lis.net.au([203.35.83.3]) (2989 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:03:07 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from uucp by executioner.lis.net.au with local-rmail (Exim 2.05 #1) id 13oLWb-0007mk-00 (Debian); Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:03:05 +1100 Received: from kerry by gotss.eu.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13oLPv-0000DI-00 (Debian); Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:56:11 +1100 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:56:11 +1100 From: Kerry Hoath To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Keeping a machine up (was Re: which prebuilt...) Message-ID: <20001025185611.M642@gotss.eu.org> References: <3.0.6.32.20001024155634.007aa5d0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001024155634.007aa5d0@mail.ufw2.com>; from bharding@ufw2.com on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:56:34PM -0500 List-Id: You need to see if your service provider can provice backup mx service. Of course this isn't free you need to pay. There is also etrn service available on http://www.ddns.org/ but it is $25us a year or something rather cheap if you ask me On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:56:34PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > If one were to go down during storms, or whatever how does one deal with > lost email if that's a service you run on the machine? I've not yet found a > backup mail service that keeps retrying your system until it comes back. I > know the free dns providers let you set mx, but set it to which machine, > never found a list of them online to choose from to send my mail through. > At 07:46 AM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote: > >I take my machine down for three reasons typically. The first is that > >lightning storms roll through and the machine doesn't care for those > >surges. The next is that ocasionally the power just drops. The third is > >cause I just want to mess with it and/or, I don't know what I am doing > >while I mess with it. > > > >Notice, I freely admit that sometimes I reboot out of sheer ignorance. I > >know that something can be accomplished without the reboot,but reboot > >because I am not sure how to accomplish my goal otherwise. but this last > >thing is dropping lower and lower on the list. (Oh I did of course reboot > >when I changed distributions recently and am sure there was no way arround > >that.) > > > >======= > >Kirk Wood > >Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry@emusys.com.au kerry@gotss.spice.net.au or khoath@lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451