Re: [SLUG] Reboot or not to reboot...

From: Neil Kittipalo (kpneil@haube.org)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 21:44:01 EDT


I strongly feel that certain events should not really be considered as
rebooting!
I have a 486 which is my gateway and is still running Suse 6.2 it sends me
email once a day such as:

Uptime
From: kpneil@haube.org
To: kpneil@haube.org

1:00pm up 905 days, 16:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Now there have been a few power cuts in those 905 days which have even
exhausted the UPS. The last was about 45 days ago.

The 486 does a cron job which runs this:

uptime | awk '{$3 = $3 + 860;print $0 }' | mail -s Uptime kpneil@haube.org

The 860 is, of course, where you'd put 366 or whatever. This will only work
when your new time is 2 days +

Just an idea.....

Neil

On Friday 25 July 2003 08:20 am, you wrote:
> Hello All,
> <braggadocio> My home box just crossed the mighty, "One year without
> rebooting; Linux, as we already know, is awesome," point, indicated by
> my .signature file.</braggadocio>
> My system is a pentium III 500 MHz with an Intel MOBO and an Adaptec
> 29160 SCSI card. I already have a Seagate tape drive using the SCSI 50
> and both my HDD's are using the LVD connection. The CDRW will daisy
> into the SCSI 50 pin.
> I wish to preserve my magnificent uptime; but, I just acquired an old
> SCSI Plextor 12/20 CDRW and I want to install it in my home box.
> My brain tells me, come h311 or high water, I will have to reboot, to
> make the Adaptec card know the new SCSI CDRW is there.
> Must I suffer the agonies of rebooting?!!?
> Does anyone know of some command to make an Adaptec, SCSI card reboot
> itself? I am running Debian Woody, and have pondered rmmod/insmod, but
> I don't think it will work if the SCSI card doesn't know its there. I
> have Googled and UseNet'ted to no avail, other than the inevitable:
> total system reboot. Remember, to throw a possible wrench into the
> machine, / is also controlled by the same Adaptec card. Maybe some day,
> I will buy IDE... NAH!
>
> TIA,
> The Logan



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