[CentOS] Re: Reboots -- Short Answer

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:50:22PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:34 -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:
> > While I agree with most of your points (the short and long version), I
> > think that when you update software on your production servers during
> > a maintenance window, its generally a good idea to do a reboot then to
> > make sure that your not supprised years later.
> 
> I never disagreed with this.  In fact, if you want to test for boot-time
> issues, the time to do it _is_ when you have upgraded some details _and_
> are in that maintenance window.

Ehehehe that sounds like me breaking the build tree for Conectiva
during development cycles. :)

> I typically find that I'm maintaining a configuration management set
> whereby I have at least 1 system non-production and I can already test
> for this, and any variation in production.  But if you're going to do it
> -- e.g., if you suspect that power or other interruptions will possibly
> occur -- then by all means, that _is_ the time to do it.

I second that recomendation.

> I was just basically saying don't reboot just because you have a window.
> I always reboot my NT servers once a week, and I cringe to see new Linux
> administrators try to apply the same logic.  ;->

You have NT servers ? I'm really sorry :P

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