On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:13:57PM -0500, Brian wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Florin Iucha wrote: > > First he says: > > Whatever happens don't panic and don't reboot :) > Then his sig says: > "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" That's only for Mouse Operated Systems. > Hmm... common thread here? Actually, I'm pretty much against rebooting a > linux box, but in some cases it's the easy way out. This was one of > those. In the example you mentioned Florin, there was uncertainty as to > whether the machine would boot back up, so it would have been a bad > move. In my case, I was 100% sure it would have fixed it. OTOH, I have a > server with a 50 day uptime that I refuse to reboot regardless of its > condition. It's a functioning sendmail/apache box that I consider the > most "mission critical" machine I own and I won't reboot it for any > reason. > > I see the reboot issue as a pride thing, and on a brand new non critical > box I don't feel pain in shutdown -r now. If it's been up awhile and it's > actually doing stuff, I'm more reluctant. I see the reboot issue as a matter of style. It's more elegant... And as a matter of learning. A 3-year-old can reboot a box, no big deal. But "hmmm, what have I done? why? how can I fix it?" Stuff that you apply later in more stringent situations. florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect"