For my (little home) servers, I always try a reboot after I installed
something regarding to the things it serves. If something goes wrong
(power failure, accicent, etc) I know that the vital parts work directly
100% after reboot.
As for my client/workstation system, I have to reboot when I need
if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it
prompts for
the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel 2. that will
effectivly
restart all programs on the system except (i think) init, and of course
the
kernel.
restarting programs really depends on the
Nate Amsden wrote:
try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with
rebooting
not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to
move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding
it.
nate
I Have had a simular experience
SamBozo Debian User wrote:
I KNOW THIS is NOT the proper way to do things with Linux ...
but how else do you know?
Please tell me?
I'll change my evil ways...
if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it
prompts for
the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel
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