Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:37:31 -0800 | | From | Mike Fedyk <> | | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:47:51AM +0100, bert hubert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:39:37PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > > > So, is there an implicit Linux policy to upgrade > > the distro, or at least the kernel, every 496 days > > whether it needs it or not? > > Having huge uptimes is by the way not adviseable operational policy > according to many. Chances are you will be in for a nasty surprise when you > reboot - do you remember after a year which daemons you 'started by hand' > and how? >
Very, very true. This has happened to me a couple times with only a couple months uptime... :(
My configs have since stabalized so that hasn't been a problem for me recently...
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