Keeping a machine up (was Re: which prebuilt...)

[Brent Harding]

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.)
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>Kirk Wood
>Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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