boot -s - can i detect intruder

Matt Piechota piechota at argolis.org
Tue Sep 16 07:49:32 PDT 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, G Hasse wrote:

> There is *no* reason to shut down the system in ordinary
> maintainance!

I don't think I buy that.  It's not a terrible idea to reboot a machine
(if you have the luxury) after you make lots of changes simply to make
sure that if comes back up in the same state you left it.  That way if you
lose power in the middle of the night, you don't get the 6am calls from
users complaining that the database (web server, app server, etc) isn't
running.

-- 
Matt Piechota


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