Ryan Wagoner wrote: > The solution here is to purchase a UPS. I prefer APC, but there are other > brands that work great. ... > Additionally if your computer BIOS supports configuring the AC recovery > power mode to always on, the computer will start back up. Most default to > last state, which doesn't work as well since shutting down will power off > the computer, which means that last state is off. There are some > workarounds to change the shutdown sequence to just halt and not power > off. Thanks for your very helpful reply. I will get a UPS, as you suggest, and if I can locate an APC I'll get that. I hadn't really thought about the last part; but of course it is not normally sufficient just to switch the current on, I have to press the button on the computer as well. The computer in question is an HP MicroServer; I will see if it is possible to send it into halt mode. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos