[Nottingham] Re: Booting Headless

[Martin Garton]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:17 +0100, James Gibbon wrote:

> It's really NOT a Windows mentality; it's a practice I adopted
> as a consequence of managing Solaris servers. Not that it was
> Solaris' fault, but I've seen too many servers buggered by
> applications with memory leaks to let my own boxes run without
> a regular reboot. It's a good habit.

Surely just restarting the memory-leaking application(s) should be
enough?

Personally I reboot certain machines regularly just to be sure I have
all the config saved properly (e.g. iptables rules) and the correct
services set to start up on boot etc.

-- 
Martin.