On 07-Sep-2000 Spinfire Magenta wrote: > on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry sent 0.4K bytes > on their merry way: > >> No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a >> Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the >> daemons running. >> Reasons to reboot: >> new kernel >> a daemon went nuts and used up all your sockets >> lots of zombie processes > > What about change/add hardware? Linux isn't /that/ robust!! >
(-: I assume new kernel with new hardware.