On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Paul Robinson wrote: > Terry has already given the answer - I didn't get your "I tried rm'ing the > file but it's not there" mail until this morning. Reboot the machine. People > are always so hesitant to reboot machines, when in fact uptimes of 500 days > just means you're a bad sysadming. Returning your machine to a known state > is always good thing to do - especially in your case. :-) > > -- > Paul Robinson >
Paul, let me disagree with you about the attitude towards rebooting server as means of curing anything wrong there and "returning your machine to a known state". First of all, this is a production server and downtimes are less than desirable there. And the principal part of it, the _GOOD_ operational system is always (or anyways must be) in a "known state" using your terms, and surely FreeBSD can be considered to belong to them. Rebooting a server to make it work gets M$ Windows to mind... ---- Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
