On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:18:05PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
If I don't know something's updated there's a good chance I will think it wasn't.
That's a good reason to be *notified* when automatic updates happen.
As I said earlier, "and if the system reboots before I can find out?"
If you've got a broken glibc, you're going to have problems if you reboot or
Not necessarily immediately.
don't. How often do you reboot?
summer@ns:~$ uptime 16:39:53 up 90 days, 40 min, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Others have rebooted in the past week. One reboots daily.
Only one is a UPS; even that would have failed if we'd been in the wrong area a week ago, we had some Bad Weather in which a school piano got carted across the sports ground. Power was down for some days for some.
The music room was reduced to stumps.
I hate the thought of a power failure while a software update is in progress. Whether it happens to me or not, it must happen to some folk somewhere somewhen.
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