Re: [ossig] 2 Malaysian organisations among 50 best uptimes

[Tze-Meng Tan <tmtan@opensos.net>]

hahah when I see the word "rebooted" I think OS not web server :)

On Monday, Jul 21, 2003, at 16:42 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Kenneth Wong wrote:

> Uh, I think you're both saying the same thing here. Note that Nai Siew 
> said "the default installation of Apache Web Server for Red Hat Linux
> is rebooted EVERY DAY just to do log rotation" and you said, "just run 
> 'apachectl restart'". In both cases, it's not the OS being restarted 
> but Apache. I run Red Hat and I'd be very, very upset if my desktop 
> was rebooted every day and I had to restart all my apps again. :)
>
> Restarting Apache will not affect a system's uptime - as Dinesh said, 
> the daemon (httpd) is the one restarted, not the entire OS itself. 
> Unless one is messing around with the kernel, a full system reboot 
> shouldn't be necessary.
>
> Ken
>
> Tze-Meng Tan wrote:
> > On Monday, Jul 21, 2003, at 11:42 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Yeak Nai Siew 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Imran, sorry for the confusing words. I was using '5 minutes' 
> > > because some monitoring software is configured to be so. I read the 
> > > URL you gave about netcraft but I am still not convinced that it can 
> > > reliably tell you exactly when is a system rebooted. FYI, I notice 
> > > that the default installation of Apache Web Server for Red Hat Linux 
> > > is rebooted EVERY DAY just to do log rotation.
> > Funny, my Apache web server has been running since 1995 and I've 
> > never had to reboot to rotate logs, just run "apachectl restart", I 
> > expect that Apache on my FreeBSD machine is identical to the one on 
> > RH.
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