--- Victor STANESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First question:
>
> Is there any logical reason to reboot every week?
> If you are speaking a real, production-environment server,
> it is stupid to do such a thing.
> It should have months or years of uptime..
> The only excuse for a reboot can be:
> - hardware upgrade / failure
> - operating system upgrade / patching
> (depending on what are you using)
> - the use of windows where it does not belong
> (on a real-world server)
>
> Which is your case?
LOL!!
Case #4: IT says so.
In response to your question,
> Is there any logical reason to reboot every week?
the answer is that I can't think of one, unless it's because we're
running an *old* midrange box with an old OS (10.2 UNIX) and have are
asking it to do too much -- they're chain-branching disk arrays because
we've run out of card slots. Still, the IT dept. is horribly
underbudgeted, and mostly farmed out to contractors who are obeying the
legacy guidelines as laid down by people they (nor I) never met.
So I'm stuck with monday morning reboots until we can get a new box,
and manage it ourselves.
In the meantime, however, the password problem has been satisfactorily
solved (security caveats noted), and thank you all. =o)
Paul
=====
...Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!...
"Ozymandias" -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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