[Sunhelp] Should I ever reboot a Solaris box if I don't need to?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Flynn [mailto:mrhal at mrhal.com]
> Short answer.  No
> 
> Long answer.  Hell no.
> 
> He's a dba because he couldn't cut being a real SA (offense intended).
> rm -rf $USERID is the best recourse of action.
> 
> More seriously, no.  It should run fine.  The only time you should
> really need to reboot a Sun server is when adding new hardware.
> 
> On a side note, I haven't known many NT servers with an uptime of 3-4
> months.  Just out of curiousity, anybody else know of any?

Sure, only incompetent NT admins can't make an NT server run for at least
3-4 months without a reboot.  :-)  Honestly, the last time most of my NT
servers got rebooted was when we upgraded from SP4 to SP5.  The other
servers got rebooted when we changed from 9GB to 18GB disks for their RAID
arrays.
	Greg