Regular Linux Reboots...?

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Yes, Michael,
Vitaly is my first name [I was born in USSR and since 1995 I live in Israel]

it's-not-for-points-post!

Vitaly

[Uwe Zessin]

We don't have a reboot policy in our shop, either, for any operating system. However, we do reboot when significant changes or changes affecting the system boot have been made to ensure that the system still comes up properly.

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi,

We have two linux servers and two windows servers.

Linux servers are for Apache, PHP, MySQL, mail server (postfix), cvs server, samba etc.

No reboot policy in the linux servers, even when we install or upgrade some pieces of no critical sofware only restart such services but no reboot.

We restart the whole system for hardware issues or upgrade all the OS.

Frank.

[Steven E. Protter]

I do not reboot my Linux Servers on any fixed schedule. At least once a quarter, I do patch or kernel maintenance which has a recommended reboot.

I am running a 4 server Linux Webhosting operation. I have had no problems running those servers 90 days or more without boot.

I was forced to boot more frequently while vanquishing some spammers back in April, but since then I boot during maintenance, or to be extra sure of clean operation right before I left the country a week ago.

SEP
On vacation in Jeusalem

[Chris Saunderson]

Like most others here, our only policy for rebooting any Unix machine is for patching (security or bug), including Linux. Large telco environment, mix of production and dev/test.

[Michael Williams_6]

Thanks for all your help guys - managed to get enough responses to compile into a document to stop our client from pressurising us into reboots - a legacy from our SCO days..!