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
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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
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:34 am, 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
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time?
I always leave my UNIX and Linux boxes on all the time (between power
outages), and they love it!
It's OK to switch the display off, if it doesn't do so automatically.
If you prefer downing the box at the end
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 08:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time?
~ maybe, it is stopping starting that puts most wear on PC
. . . best leave puter on 24/7
[ sometimes have puter running for a month without a shutdown
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
riccardo wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 08:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time?
~ maybe, it is stopping starting that puts most wear on PC
. . . best leave puter on 24/7
[ sometimes have puter running for a month
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On Wednesday 23 Feb 2005 14:51, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
The housekeeping gets done automatically, or do I need to set something up?
By default it happens during the night in cron jobs. Anacron does something
similar if you can't leave it on,
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
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 14:54, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
riccardo wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 08:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time?
~ maybe, it is stopping starting that puts most wear on PC
. .
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 16:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
(snip)
I forgot part of this. Logging off is probably a good idea. It depends
on the physical security of your system. Do you have to worry about
someone being able to
Pablo Ortuzar wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 16:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
(snip)
I forgot part of this. Logging off is probably a good idea. It depends
on the physical security of your system. Do you have to worry about
someone
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:34 am, 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
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:51 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
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
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:54 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
riccardo wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 08:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time?
~ maybe, it is stopping starting that puts most wear on PC
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:36 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:48 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
Effectively there are no Linux viruses
perhaps it is no bad idea to install rootkit hunter, and have it run
every night, by cron job :-
http://www.rootkit.nl
.
whereas most Virii are aimed at M$
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:51 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
The housekeeping gets done automatically, or do I need to set
something up?
___
On my PC one can see the housekeeping that in done by cron, in file
/etc/cron.daily [ my system is very old . . . yours will
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] logging off
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:36 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
This just an idle
the answer to your question is yes, and you may want to search the
archives on this one because I think something like this was covered about
a month ago, but I can't recall enough of the details to relate the
adventure for you. Ordinarily I would simply search my message database
and forward the
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From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:17 PM
To: Renaud OLGIATI
Cc: *List Linux-Newbie-MK
Subject: Re: [newbie] Logging off a user ?
the answer to your question is yes, and you may want to search the
archives on this one because I think
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