To reboot or not to reboot?

[Martin Eskildsen <mae@tpack.net>]

Hello,

The setting is this: A RedHat 7.1 Linux development/file server for one
of our teams has an uptime of around 6 months. During that time, various
RPMs have been upgraded due to various reasons -- security, stability,
bug fixes, you name it. But the box hasn't been rebooted.

In a way, I'm kinda "proud" and happy about that. I love stable systems
with long uptimes.

However, I'm also getting a bit worried: What if one of those upgrades
means that rebooting the box will be a pain? It's not impossible to
imagine that one or other package messed something up that won't show
until reboot-time.

OK, I'll bite the bullet this coming weekend and bring the server down
and up again, just to make sure.

But I was wondering what you guys do regarding updates that do not
explicitly require rebooting the server: Do you reboot nonetheless, or
do you keep your fingers crossed and hope everything's all right (like
I've done)?

Thanks,


/Martin.

-- 
Martin Eskildsen
Tpack A/S
Mail: mae@tpack.net
Tel.: (+45) 44575011
WWW : www.tpack.net
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