[Tfug] Uptime

[Robert Hunter]

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Over five years -- sweet.  Long uptimes are a nice bragging point,
especially to those poor folks who have to manage windoze boxen.

Just the same, I personally believe in scheduled reboots -- say once
every month or two.  The idea is that scheduled downtime is usually
preferable to unscheduled downtime.  Even if you aren't required to
reboot by kernel updates, filesystem checks, etc., it is still a good
idea to verify that a system can cold boot every now and then.  The
classic example I usually give folks (one that I've experienced
personally) is doing a reboot under duress, and then having to wait 20
minutes for a fsck to run.

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RH
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