Monthly Reboots Needed of not?

[Harry Hoffman]

Gah! are you kidding me? You don't reboot for things like updates to the
kernel or glibc?

Seems like that is just asking for trouble.

-- 
Harry Hoffman
Integrated Portable Solutions, LLC
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http://www.ip-solutions.net/


Ryan Golhar wrote:
> I've never rebooted my servers.  They have been up for 400+ days.  A
> power outage recently caused them to shutdown as the UPS battery
> drained, but that was the longest I've had them up with any problems.
> They are running DHCP, LDAP, NFS, and Flex license server.  The other
> machine is running Apache and mySQL.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:39 AM
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> Subject: Monthly Reboots Needed of not?
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> 
> 
> 
> We currently run 40 Redhat ES/WS version 3 machines and we have been
> advised that it would be good practice to reboot the linux machines once
> a month. While i have my reservations about this, i wanted to know what
> other people thought about this and also if anybody actually does this
> already.
> 
> Let me know your thoughts
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew Bridgeman
> 
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