On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:07:19PM +0100, Karol Babioch wrote: > Am 25.03.2011 16:42, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > > which is why I use the latest kernel on my > > servers and reboot them a lot becaus > > As I'm about to set up some new servers I was thinking about this in the > past few days. How does it work out for you? > > Because I don't think that rebooting is an option on servers. If there > are running http, mail, dns, etc. service(s) its not that great to > reboot the system. > > Could you elaborate on the point you tried to make? Why is a feature > frozen kernel/software a potential security issue? As far as I know > major security issues get updated, so you just need to reload the > modules, don't you? Or am I missing a point here? Because this is what > most long term distributions do. > > As you don't expect a server to be in desperate need of new features and > new supported hardware I personally don't think that the latest kernel > is needed. > > What do the others think about it? minimize the reboots++ Regards -- Milos Negovanovic milos.negovanovic@xxxxxxxxx
