From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2260 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:56:00 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id PAA28160; Tue Oct 24 15:56:03 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA02597 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:56:01 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001024155634.007aa5d0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:56:34 -0500 Subject: Re: Keeping a machine up (was Re: which prebuilt...) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: 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 > > >