Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:53:00 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | [OT] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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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.
Well, it is certainly a calling card for reliability.
> Chances are you will be in for a nasty surprise when you > reboot -
not bloody likely - if such a case did exist, big brother would let us know immediately that a service is missing.
> do you remember after a year which daemons you 'started by hand' > and how?
All daemons are started with init scripts. If init scripts do not exist for a particular service, they are created and activated with checkconfig.
In addition, all installed programs are in rpm format, and are installed in the most standard, vanilla configuration possible.
cu
jjs
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