Monthly Reboots Needed of not?
Andrew Bacchi
bacchi at rpi.edu
Wed Apr 5 16:32:04 UTC 2006
Not every kernel update is a serious risk. Often the kernel update only
contains a driver for a piece of hardware. I try to decide whether the
kernel upgrade is important enough to apply before I reboot a server.
Harry Hoffman wrote:
>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.
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- Seneca
Andrew Bacchi
Staff Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
phone: 518 276-6415 fax: 518 276-2809
http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/
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