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Remote admin.



I am soon going to have to set up a web server which I'm going to have to 
keep running remotely, possibely by giving instructions to some 
technician who's going to be there.

What I'm going to do is:
1. have two copies of everything including root filesystem on two 
seperate harddisks in case one of them fails, and boot diskettes.  Is 
there any way to make it automatically boot off the second drive if the 
first one fails?

2. send me e-mail notification at every shutdown and startup.

3. have a script once an hour to ping the server, and check the the httpd 
is running, and scream bloody hell if they're not working.

Can you thing of anything else / any tips which might help?



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