[Gllug] front panel light

[Anthony Newman]

Julian Somers wrote:
> An obscure question (yes, another one):
> 
> I want to put LEDs on the front panels of some headless servers, that
> indicate when the server is booting. It would light up when you power up
> the box, and turn off once the box has reached the runlevel where user
> can log into the web interface. If I had such a thing, I might be able
> to stop people repeatedly turning on and off servers while they are
> fscking their big disks once a month -- a common cause of death.

This is what SSH was invented for, with the optional addition of people 
with some clue and/or a big sign warning of impending doom for anyone 
infringing the rules :)


Ant
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