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

[John Kennedy]

Robert,
You need to look at 2 things:
1) You've been hacked, rootkitted and someone is having fun with your
server...
2) You have SERIOUS system configuration problems or other application
issues.

Hal,
I know of a windoze box that has been running for a year with only 1 or
2 BSOD's/reboots.  Then again there is literally no software other than
the O/S and the only thing the users does is play MP3's...

John

> "Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" wrote:
> 
> You mean one that's actually doing something right??????
> Ours makes it a few days....
> 
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From:   Hal Flynn [SMTP:mrhal at mrhal.com]
>      Sent:   Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:39 PM
>      To:     sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>      Subject:        Re: [Sunhelp] Should I ever reboot a Solaris box
>      if I don't need to?
> 
>      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?
> 
>      Hal
> 
>      "Adams, Christopher" wrote:
> 
>      >
>      >
>      > I have a E 450 UltraSparc-II with 2 gig of ram and 6 18 gig
>      Segate
>      > Cheetah drives (non-raid).  This 450 is "only" running an
>      Oracle
>      > database (8.1.5) and has been running with no problems for 6
>      months
>      > straight without being rebooted.  This is a production server
>      and has
>      > mission critical data on it.  Last weekend our Oracle DBA made
>      a call
>      > to "reboot" the server because he heard through the grapevine
>      that
>      > "rebooting" a Solaris server (even if there are no problems or
>      > configuration changes necessary for this) every 3 to 4 months
>      is a
>      > good thing and should be done.  My question is, "Is this true?
>      Should
>      > you reboot a running server that doesn't need to be rebooted
>      for any
>      > administrative purposes every 3 to 4 months just for good
>      measure?".
>      > I think he is getting confused with Microsoft (no offense of
>      course)
>      > NT Server.
>      >
>      > Please Fire away with any advice you can give...
>      >
>      > Thanks in advance..
>      >
>      >
>      > Christopher A.
> 
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John Kennedy
UNIX System Administrator
Orent Graphics