On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:46 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Danny Sauer wrote:
On Friday 01 April 2005 03:57 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have seen many folk who have signatures stating that the machine has been running for something like 400 days.
Whilst I applaud this type of reliability, I am wondering about the actual fs as the machine isn't rebooted so that fsck can check the partitions.
I am perhaps paranoid about keeping the fs in tip top shape but it is the basis that we all rely on.
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Tnx Danny.
Had a look at the telinit man page and see it is linked to init. Messing with the father of all processes does not bode well and I am just going to have to start trusting the kernel developers that it is going to look after itself, not like the other IS that I am used to and grew up with.
It's really not that big of a deal. Yeah, it sounds scary, but it doesn't change anything other than killing some running programs, and then starting them back up again. In the worst case, you reboot and everything's happy again. Granted, in this case you dont' actually need to do anything, but it's seriously no worse than running any other program. There are several legitimate reasons for wanting to drop to single-user mode temporarily - most of which involve changing mount points and otherwise working with disks... --Danny