Re: Nasty suprise with uptime

[Mike Fedyk]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:47:51AM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:39:37PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> 
> > So, is there an implicit Linux policy to upgrade
> > the distro, or at least the kernel, every 496 days
> > whether it needs it or not?
> 
> Having huge uptimes is by the way not adviseable operational policy
> according to many. Chances are you will be in for a nasty surprise when you
> reboot - do you remember after a year which daemons you 'started by hand'
> and how?
> 

Very, very true.  This has happened to me a couple times with only a couple
months uptime... :(

My configs have since stabalized so that hasn't been a problem for me
recently...

Mike