Subject: Re: Disappearing files.....[long, new case/infos]
From: BWS - Offwhite (brennan@offwhite.net)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 18:12:08 EST
Good idea to simply reboot the host system after doing upgrades. It sucks
your power keeps going out.
Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Robert B. Bell wrote:
> BWS - Offwhite wrote:
> >
> > Why do you have to reboot your server? In the very least you could have
> > Netatalk shut down and restart every week if you want to close mac
> > connections to it.
>
> I reboot the server because of two main reasons.
> 1) a power outage in our building.
> They doing major construction to and around our site.
> (We had 15000 employees at this site 15 years ago,
> the company sold most of the land to make a quick dollar,
> and now we are down to 1500 today.
> Thus major building changes.)
> They seem to cut power to our building 2 or 3 times a year,
> (usually planned).
> 2) I am lazy.
> When I need to put some patches on the system,
> if no one is using it, I just reboot instead
> of just restarting the subsystem.
>
>
> When I want to close all the MAC connections,
> I just do a "kill -HUP" to the main "afpd" task
> which logs them all off in 5 minutes.
> Then I can restart the afpd (which I have done in the past).
>
> Robert.
>
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