On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Nathan Duehr <denverpilot at me.com> wrote: >> Things break and need maintenance. If your services can't tolerate >> that, you need more redundancy. As for the OS updates (which are >> only one of the many things that can break...), they are 'pretty well' >> vetted by upstream so breakage is rare and your odds are better >> installing them than not. But you don't have to reboot right now - >> schedule it for a convenient time. > > Technically a kernel patch isn’t for something “that broke”, it’s for something “that was written wrong to begin with”… > > Just to be pedantic. True, but pretty much everything was written wrong to begin with, back in the day when everyone thought bad guys just shouldn't be allowed to use the network. And the fixes are trickling in bit by bit. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com