From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.lig.bellsouth.net([205.152.0.91]) (2948 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:21:32 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from odysseus.yi.org (host-209-214-13-87.pbi.bellsouth.net [209.214.13.87]) by mail6.lig.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id WAA13559 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:21:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by odysseus.yi.org via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.111) for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:21:31 -0400 (EDT) From: stp@odysseus.yi.org (Tommy Moore) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:21:31 -0400 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? Message-ID: <20001023222131.A6996@odysseus.yi.org> References: <3.0.6.32.20001023204832.007d0d70@mail.ufw2.com> <3.0.6.32.20001022184637.007a8210@mail.ufw2.com> <3.0.6.32.20001023204832.007d0d70@mail.ufw2.com> <20001023220321.A6959@odysseus.yi.org> <3.0.6.32.20001023211252.007af280@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001023211252.007af280@mail.ufw2.com>; from bharding@ufw2.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:12:52PM -0500 List-Id: Well, I use to do this practice installing programs and just to see if they'd work reboot, but knowing linux a bit better than I did I now don't reboot unless poer goes out or when I need to redo the kernel for some reason. Ltely on the server at school the machine's been getting bumped and it's power switch has a little short in it, but other than accidentalthings like this it stays up 24/7. This is probably the case for any unix actually since the kernel has vary good process management and controll. On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:12:52PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > I'm not real sure, I know they use some NT on other boxes as well, and > figuring they reboot the NT ones, they might reboot the linux ones too. I > know one of my old isps when I used to have a shell account rebooted > sometimes, sometimes it'd vary from when they did it, but when I'd use "w" > to see what time it was, I'd notice now and then that the uptime reset. > I'm thinking they probably reboot when they upgrade or install new programs > just to make certain that it will start automatically. > At 10:03 PM 10/23/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Are you in an environment where the boxes are rebooted every night? If so, > why are they. Just about everything accept a kernel upgrade can be done > with out a reboot. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup