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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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at ... Now I have to go |
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gmail.com administer FIRST-AID to my |
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pet LEISURE SUIT!! |