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

["daniel" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i agree
all services in linux are easily restarted
often using the very startup scripts used at boot

  /etc/init.d/named restart

will restart named

  /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart

will restart apache

restarting the entire machine is something only micros~1 machines have to do

_________________________________
daniel a. g. quinn
starving programmer



----- Original Message -----

> > > 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
>
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