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On Friday 11 December 2009 18:33:49 Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> On 12/11/2009 9:38 AM, Dale wrote: |
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> > Mickaël Bucas wrote: |
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> >> From the process name, you can deduce the service and restart it. |
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> >> I've never needed a reboot for this kind of problem. |
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> >> You may have to switch to run level 1 to restart some important |
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> >> services like udev. |
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> > Actually, you can kill udev and restart it. Kill the process and then |
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> > run "/sbin/udevd --daemon" and it will be started again. |
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> Yeah, or you could, you know, just reboot. |
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> Frankly I have never figured out the irrational fear Linux people have |
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> about rebooting their machines after a big upgrade. It takes my laptop |
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> way less time to shutdown and restart than it does for me to manually |
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> stop and restart everything that just got updated, and I can go grab a |
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> soda in the meantime. |
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That's a laptop. |
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Do you have an SLA with customers where you guarantee your laptop will be up |
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99.999%? My database and DNS servers do, and just in case you were asking, |
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those 5 nines INCLUDES scheduled downtime. Unlike some other machines around |
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in the company like, gee, I dunno, the Windows machines hosting the Active |
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Directory, maybe? |
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For some obscure perverse reason akin to grey elephants in the living room, |
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those have 20 minutes downtime every single Friday. If I did that with my *nix |
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boxes, I can pretty much kiss my plans for Christmas Bonus goodbye. |
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Now do you understand why my refusal to reboot my machines willy-nilly is |
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entirely rational? It's because they are not my laptop. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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