On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hey all, > > Lame o question. Server's running RH8 for 49 days already. I'm not > sure when I need to re-boot the machine. Anyone has any rule-of-thumb?? > > (on the other hand.. it's not acted up yet.. so..) Upon hardware failure!! :-) Seriously though this is not windoze. It does not require regular reboots. The only reason to reboot it is if you need to upgrade the kernel, upgrade hardware or if it has been up lonng enough that it starts acting weird. I have had machines run well past the 1 year mark. Others have had them run much longer. It depends on what you are doing and if they find potential remote exploits in the kernel on a machine exposed to the internet. FWIW the machines that have run for over a year needed to be rebooted to upgrade the kernel. They never showed any signs of failing. I just got nervous about running an old kernel. So I guess you could say I was the point of failure that caused the reboot. :-) HTH, -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
