Re: PC without a monitor

On 19 Jul, 13:43, Gargoyle <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This has probably been asked a million times before...

At home I have an old PC running Windows98 that I would like to leave
running for a week to act as a logging facility for my broadband
router. The router creates syslog output to a text file.
Unfortunately, the syslog has no internal storage of its own so I want
to write the log to disk on my old (spare) PC and leave it running in
a spare room.

The PC has no sensitive personal data, only the bare op system and a
few applications, etc. The trouble is that the old monitor gets quite
hot whilst in use, plus I am concerned there may be a fault with the
monitor, so I don't want it left on all the time due to a potential
fire risk.

What I intend to do is boot up the PC and then switch off the monitor
while I am elsewhere, only switching on the monitor now and again to
browse the syslog output.

Is running a booted PC without a monitor generally feasible?
Has anybody else tried something like this, if so any problems I
should know about?

(web searches have yeilded little insight for my query)

Can your router email the log files to you? That way you do not need
the external PC running all of the time.

Andy

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