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Midday Open Thread and Server Reboot

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Velvet Elvis3/07/2011 4:53:48 pm PST

re: #66 b_sharp

I have 2 Linux servers that I end up rebooting once a week or so because of upgrades.

If it’s a debian or ubuntu based systerm, there’s a tool in the “debian goodies” package called “checkrestart” that will tell you exactly which processes need to be restarted due to library upgrades and what init scripts to run to do so. It can prevent a lot of rebooting.