server uptime

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:23:14PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> 
>   And let's not forget that Linux isn't immune to restart-the-world
> issues, either.  For example, on a Linux server, if you update glibc
> to patch a security bug, you pretty much need to restart *everything*.

sometimes it's good to reboot a system just to make sure you can.
i.e., that you haven't introduced deadlocks or dependencies or
gremlins or changed some externality that the boot process depends
on or that some flash memory hasn't rotted or ...

mm