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

["Edward R. Milstein" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not think any of us were saying reboot a machine on a set schedule
or it will not correctly, we stated when a machine is doing strange
things and you can not explain it, a quick reboot can be a good thing...

-ed-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobalt-users-
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley Caricofe
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:35 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] When in doubt, reboot!
> 
> > > 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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