On 30/04/2012 03:51, Svante Signell wrote: > - starting up the network: yes if network booting, other things can be > done later. > - starting an MTA: no > - staring sshd: no On my remotely administered Debian server, these three are *definitely* part of the boot process, and it's not network booting. I have no idea where you pulled your definition of _boot_ out from, but my definition of _boot_ is the process of initializing hardware, and starting up every service needed to get the machine into its usual running state. From wikipedia: > In computing, booting (also known as booting up) is the initial set of > operations that a computer system performs when electrical power is switched on. > The process begins when a computer that has been turned off is re-energized, and > ends when the computer is ready to perform its normal operations. Read: "ends when the computer is ready to perform its normal operations." Is a remotely administered machine "ready to perform its normal operations" when:- 1. The network is still down? No. 2. SSH is still down? No. 3. (in the case of a mail server) MTA is still down? No. Thank you. Now let's please stop this farce. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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