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On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've |
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> learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them |
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> occasionally (when I have some spare time and I know they're idle) |
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> just to make they still can. |
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> I've settled on roughly once a month or so. |
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> What seems to happen if I don't do this is that some update (or |
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> perhaps just a stupid configuration mistake on my part) will render |
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> the machine non-bootable, and I won't discover it until several months |
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> later at the worst possible moment when I'm in the middle of something |
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> urgent and the power fails, or I type "reboot" into the wrong xterm, |
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> or whatever. Or maybe those things don't happen to other people... |
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I'll wager the majority of experienced folks here do much the same as |
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you, I know I do on my own boxes. |
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One thing I've been trying to ram in at work is regular monthly reboots |
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of all systems. You know how it goes - machine has 1000+ days uptime[1] |
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w00t! w00t! |
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and then the power goes off |
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and then you find the drives won't spin up because the bearings are |
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rumbling and the psu just can't deliver the oomph anymore to spin up all |
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8 drives at once |
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and then the shit really hits the fan for real! |
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So far I can't get agreement to do it (inertia? fear of loss of street |
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cred? idiotic product owners? I dunno...) |
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Maybe I'll sneak a monthly repeating change control in and just do it |
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[1] 1000 days uptime these days is stupid. All it proves is that the |
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admin is not doing kernel updates and the host probably leaks security |
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holes like a sieve |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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