-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 Feb 2005 08:34, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > This just an idle question really ... > > Over the years people have told me how stable their linux set ups are, > and that there is no need to log off, or shut down each day. How valid > is this? In Windows I always used to shut down at end of the day. > WinXP wasn't so bad, but both 95 and 98 required lots of reboots. I did > have mandrake going all night last night as I had been to the easyurpmi > site and it took forever to update the data base. > > Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time? > As far as hardware is concerned you'll find strong arguments on both sides. As far as Mandrake is concerned, housekeeping has to be done sometime. By default it is done in the middle of the night. If you switch off at night you are heading for trouble unless you make other provision for housekeeping. This is done by installing anacron, which makes sure that any housekeeping that has not been done overnight gets done when you boot up. HTH
Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCHFLfkFAvMr/nNX8RAnkTAJ4rAq5ZNJUHFjlXvM3/XFlhjw5lFwCfWwFZ gMXx+gbkcWLiiBtjurKphOU= =mHpq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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