Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

[William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org>]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 Martin_Tanzer@dvs-berlin.de wrote:

> As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the
> hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might
> be usefull.

You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either.  The command is
'hostname'.

You need to reboot to change the partition table of a disk with mounted
filesystems, and you need to reboot to recompile the kernel, and you need
to reboot for hardware upgrades.  That's about it, really...

> The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot...

That is the real reason :}