Re: new to list, first post

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 19:27 -0400, Doug Epling wrote:
>> Well, excuse me for my old fashioned notion that a server 
must run for
>> days, weeks, months without incident.  More and more I see a 
system
>> loaded down with GUI apps that are crashing.  I said 
crashing.
> 
> If you're running GUI apps on your server, you're probably 
doing it
> wrong. It's perfectly possible to do a completely non-X 
install of
> Fedora, and that's how I'd recommend doing things for a server 
system.

This is what I use for my server. Fedora 10 and uptime of 50 
days.

>> This never used to be a word associated with Linux, but it is 
now.
>> And what is the deal with needing to reboot after updates?  
That
>> sounds like something needs to be properly entered into the 
registry
>> -- oh wait, that is Windows.
> 
> You have to reboot on kernel updates (...duh) and udev 
updates. Possibly
> a couple of other things, but those are the big ones. I 
believe it would
> have been very difficult to architect things such that udev 
could be
> restarted without needing a reboot to ensure correct 
operation. Most
> apps just aren't coded to deal with the entire device node 
tree suddenly
> disappearing and re-appearing underneath them...
> 

I do think that bodhi should also have a flag for needs-session-
restart similar to the reboot flag. I have a ticket for it in 
bodhi trac, though I haven't heard any noise from it since I 
filed it.

- --Ben
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkpyRvgACgkQiPi+MRHG3qS34ACgvXrHV1QNTcgaBI/6kzujdwos
pA0An0ZP/uxAE1KXJyE+/Q8zmVDllG8c
=k1LF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


-- 
fedora-devel-list mailing list
fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux