Re: How often to reboot a production Web server?
On 07/03/13 13:25, Victor Porton wrote:
> I've setup a VPS based on Debian 6 yesterday.
>
> Today I've run `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` to get security fixes.
>
> It updated libc6 and some other essential packages.
>
> Should I reboot my production Web server? If yes, how often?
>
If you install the debian-goodies package, you can run checkrestart to
see what programs are still holding open old libraries - though there
are some false positives.
You can then decide whether you just need to restart a particular
service (checkrestart will tell you what, in most cases), or whether you
need to reboot.
Unfortunately it doesn't tell you whether you're running the latest
installed kernel.
Richard
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