[CentOS] Re: IPCop updates, Evolution Calendar rarely crashes now

[Lanny Marcus]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> on 7-24-2008 5:36 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
<snip>
> At work, you
>> do the reboot at  3 A.M.  or you have users who are furious, or you
>> send them a message the network is going down temporarily?
>>
>
> I usually have to do updates like that on the weekends, as I can't depend on
> a 3AM reboot to be up in the morning when Exec's are in. A reboot I trust,
> but not the first one after a kernel change. On a weekend I can drive in and
> see what happened if necessary and switch to a backup router.
> In our main office I have 2 running side by side and I can log in to the T1
> router and change switch ports to swap them. Then a reboot on the router to
> hasten the MAC changeover. Usually 5 minutes tops.

Thank you for the explanation! I wondered, if you would trust it, to
come back up, if you scheduled a reboot for 3 A.M.