[rescue] Rebooting UNIX boxen (was: Fry's)

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sun Feb 24 01:36:35 CST 2002


On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:25:22AM -0500, Loomis, Rip wrote:
> So how long will y'all let a Solaris box go without rebooting
> after a patch cluster install?  On most non-proprietary UNIXish
> systems, installing an updated software package will also stop
> and start the service--but from what I can tell it *doesn't* on
> Solaris.  Suggestions?

I *always* reboot after a patch cluster install , at least on my
personal boxes.  On work (production) machines, we piecemeal-patch
as necessary to fix problems, but if it works, we dont touch it.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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