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.
[snip] 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. -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================