[Discuss] On Rebooting (was Re: ssh issue)

[slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt)]

Rich Pieri said on Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:46:00 -0400

>On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:09:10 -0400
>dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:
>
>> sorry, i know nothing about auto-updates or auto-download,
>> not being much of a sysadmin, just a linux user (since
>> 1992).  i upgrade every sunday (without reboot) when i wind
>> my clocks.  now i'll add reboot to my upgrade script and
>> hope for the best.  
>
>It's not a bad practice to reboot whenever you change a system, whether
>this is configuration changes or OS updates, in order to test those
>changes. If you don't test then you don't know if it actually works. If
>you have many such untested changes and you are forced to reboot and
>it fails, then you are potentially facing a lot of changes to sift
>through to identify the faulty change.

This is an excellent point. In Windows back in the 20th century I did a
prophylactic reboot every day, and it wasn't really an inconvenience in
my particular case.

Upon switching to Linux it suddenly became a mark of shame to reboot.
We all bragged about our uptimes, etc. Today my uptime is 20 days, and
spans a kernel update. The one before that was 90 days, spanning
several kernel updates. Having a rolling release (Void Linux), it would
be impractical to reboot on every sofware update. But I think I'll start
rebooting every Sunday whether I need it or not. Thanks for the tip.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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