Tom Limoncelli has a fine blog post on his fear of rebooting a server:
http://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/03/fear-of-rebooting.html "Every time I reboot a machine I fear it won't come back up." His solution set is simple, but not easy: 1. Reboot, change, reboot. (The first reboot is interesting.) 2. Reduce the number of services on a machine. 3. Better testing. 4. Better automation.I score pretty well with #2 and #4, not so well on #1 and #3. (I tend to outsource #3 to the package managers at CentOS and Debian, which may not be a terribly trustworthy approach.)
-- Paul Heinlein [email protected] 45°38' N, 122°6' W
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