[newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Vic
Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do just this. Does anyone else here know if this is too often, or too little? Thanks -- My new linux web server with Apache

Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
I have a uptime of nearly 6 months on one of my rh61 boxes we have a rm52 box at work that has a uptime of nearly a year Vic wrote: Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a cron.monthly to do

Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Harold Hartley
why reboot if its working fine.. linux is not windows... some have run a linux box for a good year or more without a reboot... --- Vic wrote: Sorry this might be kind of a duh question, it was recomended to me to reboot my linux machine about once a month, that I do, and have a

Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Vic
Whew, thanks all for the advice. One year I did not need any updates or anything to be reconfigged so I just left it up from one Christmas to the next, then my UPS died. On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Harold Hartley mewed: why reboot if its working fine.. linux is not windows... some have run a linux