From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 10 6:15:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (search.sparks.net [208.5.188.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C8537B578; Wed, 10 May 2000 06:15:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmiller@search.sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 6DAF4DC01; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:10:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D83DC00; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:10:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:10:10 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: Kris Kirby Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Farms? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 May 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > related patches and secondly stability related changes. It would be > > > really nice to seperate them into those which require relinking/rebooting > > > and those which don't. > > > > Well, basically the only time you need to reboot a FreeBSD box is to > > install a new kernel. > > > > Anything else can be fixed online, although it might be easier for some > > things just to reboot and let it happen by magic. > > An alternative to a full-reboot is to "shutdown now" and then hit CTRL-D > at the password prompt / shell path. You get to keep your uptime this way > :-) That's cheating:) More importantly, it only works with manual intervention, something hard to come by on a server farm. I'll have to remember this for my home system tho..... --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message