Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:43:22 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <Lowell@Be-Well.Ilk.Org> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Reasonable expectations of sysadmins Message-ID: <44d3e30yth.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4E94BA41.2020907@FreeBSD.org> (Garance A. Drosehn's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:50:57 -0400") References: <201110020411.p924BPqn037383@chilled.skew.org> <86d3e4j777.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4E94BA41.2020907@FreeBSD.org>
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Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> writes: > FWIW: If I have a production server which has been up and running for > more than six months, I often reboot the machine *before* making some > significant change, just to make sure the machine is still in working > order before I make that change. I then make the change, and reboot > again. There are times where I have discovered problems in that first > reboot. In theory, this should never be helpful. In theory, there's no difference between practice and theory. In practice, um...
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