I also reboot for kernel updates! On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Cowboy" <c...@cwf1.com> > > > On Sunday 31 May 2015 03:49:10 pm Graham Wilman wrote: > > > > after getting the play out working on clienta terminal for the past > > > 6 days > > > the decision was taken today to get clientb terminal working which > > > it now partially is > > > unfortunately once all 3 terminals the server.clienta and clientb > > > were rebooted I could > > > not get play out to work on clienta again > > > > Re-booted why ? > > I've often said that rebooting a *nix machine is usually a bad idea. > > And, again, a good to recap some of Good Sysadmin Practice: > > In the Windows world, it's often recommended that you reboot a machine that > is acting -- as we say in support -- hincky. That's because Windows is > sufficiently complicated and fragile that things can get corrupt at > runtime, and the simple fact you rebooted it can fix a problem. > > That's traditionally not been true in the *nix world; particularly on > purpose-built single function servers, there simply isn't enough code > running at once to allow for the sort of complicated, multiplicative > complexity failures that you see in many Windows machines. > > But does that mean you should never reboot a Linux box, just because > you usually don't *have* to, to fix your problem? > > No, it doesn't, and here's why: > > Some of the things you might change in your configuration can affect > how things start *when* you boot up, and if you've adjusted one of them, > the time to boot it and find out *is right now, when you've just made the > change and it's fresh in your mind*, not 6 months from now at 3 in the > morning, when you don't remember what you did. > > Well, I suppose you could look in your logbook. Or check your ticketing > system. :-) > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 > 1274 >
