?????????? Reboot every 2-3 weeks no matter what?????? I sense bad karma in this post! The ONLY time I reboot (regularly) is when there is a kernel upgrade. Other than that, I can start/stop/restart services and the server does not complain in the least. A reboot clears symptoms, but it does not alleviate the core problem(s) with a package. In that I do agree with you. If the package doesn't work, then maybe.. _maybe_ a reinstall is in order. One of the major reasons I insisted that our department move our main web server from M$ to Linux is the reboot stuff. Automatic updates reboot our M$ servers almost everyday to engage the changes to the "feature" being patched. Far be it that an update (again, aside from the kernel) necessitates a reboot in the *nix world on a regular basis. Yours in fellowship. Steve Gonzales, RHCE, MCSE LSU Division of Engineering Services GEAUX TIGERS! On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 18:56, JesterDev wrote: > Normally I only reboot about every 2-3 weeks no matter what or how > many things I install. However if you install something and it's not > working the way it should, or not at all try rebooting and see what > happens. Most likley it just needs to be re-installed. > > JesterDev > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Don > To: Fedora-List > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:36 PM > Subject: How do I know when a reboot is required? > > With MS Windows, it seems a reboot is required after nearly > every software update. > > One of the things I like about UNIX/Linux is the overall > design of things such that reboots are not really part of the > "problem resolution process". > > If I use up2date to get a new httpd update, after it's > installed I restart the httpd daemon.... similar for sshd > updates etc. > For a kernel I reboot the whole machine.... > > But, how do I know what needs to be restarted/rebooted when > updates to things like cron or glibc are installed? To "be > safe" I could always reboot the machine after installing > updates, but that seems unnecessary and certainly unwanted. > > Thanks, > > Don Russell > > (North America: Pacific Time Zone) > > \|/ > (. .) > ___ooO-(_)-Ooo___ > > > > > >
