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Old 08-24-2003, 06:47 AM  
TheSaint
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In the world of adult webmasters and system admins, you often find individuals bragging about "uptime".

You'll never see this is a corporate IT setting.

Besides Kernel upgrades, systems should be rebooted on a scheduled basis, at least monthly.

The reason is to prove it can be rebooted. I can't tell you in the old days how often we'd reboot a system that had been up for 15 months, only to scramble because an upgrade done a year ago (and now a distant memory) broke something.

My servers have been up about 40 days; whenever it gets to 60 I find an excuse to reboot them for safety.
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