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I agree, I ran apt-get update or dist-upgrade and X broke,, so this is important, Paul > >But my main message is that one can over value uptime, over good >maintenance. Rebooting after upgrades is also a good way to make sure >the upgrade won't stop the machine coming up later when you get the >inevitable power interruption or need to power down when the upgrade is >long forgotten except for the administrator diary or notes. > >The other lesson I learnt the hard way, is when working on machines you >don't know well it can pay to reboot and make sure it comes up clean >before applying any changes. Otherwise you'll assume you broken >something, which was in fact already broken. > > > -- http://www.zleap.net -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html