Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:50:02 -0600, Dale wrote: > Leave it to me to find something weird. o_O We do ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving to where you can't find them. pgpgmUHeUSdI0.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:08:58 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> That's just sensible, although a new combination is more likely to >>> fail because of the kernel than the init thingy. >>> >> The kernel loaded, it was late in the process, about or at the time the >> switch root is

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:08:58 -0600, Dale wrote: > > That's just sensible, although a new combination is more likely to > > fail because of the kernel than the init thingy. > > > > The kernel loaded, it was late in the process, about or at the time the > switch root is supposed to happen, that

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:45:12 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> init thingies have changed a lot since your Mandr{ake,iva} >>> experiences. The way the kernel handles them is very different and >>> the tools used to build them have changed greatly. Mandrake used >>> their on init

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:45:12 -0600, Dale wrote: > > init thingies have changed a lot since your Mandr{ake,iva} > > experiences. The way the kernel handles them is very different and > > the tools used to build them have changed greatly. Mandrake used > > their on init thingy builder, as did most

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Poison BL.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've > > learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them > > occasionally (when I have some spare

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:16:19 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Now that I'm basically forced to have a init thingy, that is a >> additional reason not to reboot. In the past, another distro, the init >> thingy would break and I couldn't boot. I despise having to have a init >>

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've > learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them > occasionally (when I have some spare time and I know they're idle) > just to make they still can. > > I've settled on roughly

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:16:19 -0600, Dale wrote: > Now that I'm basically forced to have a init thingy, that is a > additional reason not to reboot. In the past, another distro, the init > thingy would break and I couldn't boot. I despise having to have a init > thingy. If I ever replace the

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've > learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them > occasionally (when I have some spare time and I know they're idle) > just to make they still can. > > I've settled on roughly once a month or so. >

[gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them occasionally (when I have some spare time and I know they're idle) just to make they still can. I've settled on roughly once a month or so. What seems to happen if I don't