[CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user
Brian Mathis
brian.mathis at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 18:18:03 UTC 2009
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote:
>
> I have a dedicated * CentOS box that shows today as uptime 543 days. I built
> from scratch as I needed to support a four port analog trunk card.
> This does not have internet access as I'm running it like an old fashioned
> PABX -
> just with great sip / linux based snom desk phones and all the attendant
> wiz-bang super stuff that * provides.
>
> I do want to do an update of it all to latest versions etc. but when it just
> keeps working it is hard to justify the down time and potential hic-ups.
> HTH
> Rob
>
Uptime is a red herring and is generally meaningless. You'd be better
off performing updates and reboots at least once a month, so you don't
need to worry about any big changes that might come with not updating
for almost 2 years. If you updated now and something broke, you
wouldn't know what did it. If you keep up incrementally, you can
catch the small things as they come. You also don't have a "delicate
flower" that you need to worry if it won't come up after the next
reboot. That's not a good situation to be in.
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