device rebooting (was: Re: codegreen, the problem.

["Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>]

I  have seen systems that I would not want to be rebooted unless
competent folks were sitting around peering at it with their fingers
crossed...

Of course,  that was  a Unix box that had had a lot of configuration
changes done to it without total system reboot, had been up for a long
time, was a public system, and there was  doubt that the thing would
come back at all...

Are you so confident that a system can reinitialize without supervision
100% of the time?  Sounds like a pretty reliable box!


Patrick Patterson wrote:
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> On September 6, 2001 09:07 am, John Thornton wrote:
> > The thing that scares me about codegreen and others like is the fact
> > that it reboots IIS without even warning the network administrator.
> > In the real world there are production servers that are running
> > 24/7. Just up and rebooting a extremely important service such as
> > IIS without letting anyone know is unheard of. For example, the company
>
> Ok... I agree with you up to a point - some systems shouldn't be rebooted
> during peak times....

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