[cobalt-users] Re: Re: Reboot is good + Price on RAQ 4? Suggestion...

["Nicolae" <nicolaep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Message: 1
> From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] The server encountered an 
> internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete 
> your request.
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:33:54 -0400
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> On Monday 06 May 2002 03:22 pm, Edward R. Milstein wrote:
> > Not to argue with you Gerald as I find your posts insightful and 
> > helpful but a good rule of thumb is reboot when in doubt..  
> I have 25 
> > years of UNIX experience and only a little with Lynx/Cobalt 
> but not a 
> > bad thing for people and not just M$ people to keep in mind..
> >
> > Mind you, M$ products due require many times more reboots 
> to function 
> > properly!!  :-)
> >
> 
> I know what you mean!
> 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

We had a technician come from Arizona to work on our SCO OpenServer
Unix 5.x.  He installed his stuff and as soon as he rebooted some
odd errors came up.  He was there for hours and hours to trouble-shoot.

One minute it works fine, as soon as he rebooted, hell-broke loose.

Over the weekend, I locked myself out.  IPChains.  A reboot took 
care of the problem (flushed all rules/policies on IPchains).  
Although I didn't reboot till 1-2 days later. emails started pouring in.

SYSTEM STATUS button was flashing in the GUI saying that the Web, FTP, 
Email, and SNMP or etc were "RED" not working.  But in reality they
were.

They were.  I had to reboot the server once or twice.  The Co-lo did a
manual
reboot from LCD.  Everything went away with a reboot.  WINDOWS!
hahahaha.
Sometimes I have to reboot, I have / you have no choice.  You add
something to windows
you are asked to reboot.  There goes 3-4 minutes downtime.

I recall using IIS and PWS in the past, installing custom DLLs and such
using
global.* and had to reboot every time we would make a change to the code
(dll),
or restart IIS.

P.S. Can someone email me off-list the suggestion on this deal:

Manufacturer SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC  
Manufacturer Part# CBT-R46CXXXXX
Description RAQ4 450MHZ 128MB 40GB   
S/N 4C04BM1XXXXX  
Cost $1,138.00    
Retail Cost $1,499.00  
Add'l Memory Upgrade to 512MB             $99.00  
Sale Price: ======>>>   $1184.00 + Shipping about 40$

I don't think I can wait till the new ones roll out and based on the
articles
that are out, I think the new ones are in the 2K ball park.  This I
already use
and it's co-located.

Nicolae