RE: [cobalt-users] When in doubt, reboot!

[Bradley Caricofe <caricofe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > But, to me re-booting is the "court of last resort"
> > More computers, Linux, freeBSD, netBSD, winx, whatever
> > may FAIL on reboot....
> > So re-booting is a DRASTIC measure
>
> What?  How is a controlled reboot a drastic measure?  If you have
> a machine
> that you are unable to run through a simple reboot, then there are bigger
> problems at work, and you should really be looking into that.
>
> I'm not pushing a reboot for each and every problem.  But if you have a
> wacky anomoly that you cannot explain, try a reboot.  I'd much
> rather spend
> 5 minutes on a reboot than all day tracing a silly little problem that the
> reboot may well just solve.

I used to work for Red Hat and had access to some folks who really knew a
lot about Linux.  I've been told that a well oiled Linux machine never needs
a reboot, unless adding or removing hardware.  All software services can be
stopped or started thru a shell.

-Brad