on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry sent 0.4K bytes on their merry way:
> No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a
> Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the
> daemons running.
> Reasons to reboot:
> new kernel
> a daemon went nuts and used up all your sockets
> lots of zombie processes
What about change/add hardware? Linux isn't /that/ robust!!
Dan
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