[rescue] Rebooting UNIX boxen (was: Fry's)

[Greg A. Woods]

MrBill apparently said:
>
> What I hate is having to *repeat*, at work:
> 
> "This is a UNIX box.  You dont just "reboot" it when things dont work;
> you stop and restart services or applications.  UNIX boxes should in
> all reality only be rebooted once a year, and then only if you're
> paranoid..."

This is currently my "longest time between since boot" NetBSD box:

corporate         up  806+14:13,     0 users,  load 1.11, 1.09, 1.08

Nearly everything in use on that box has been upgraded at least once,
except of course the kernel.  It just does smail and httpd for over 75
virtual domains, and of course rc5des.  :-)

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