Linux-Hams archive - November 1997: Re: Stability question
Re: Stability question
Michael A. Murphree (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Mon, 03 Nov 1997 16:22:42 -0500
At 01:06 PM 11/3/97 -0500, Al Woodhull wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Thomas Mørch wrote:
>
>> As i have mentioned before on the list, i'm planning to move our club bbs
>> to linux/fbb. However there seems to be some problems in convincing the
>> other sysops in the club, that we have to use linux. Mostly it's stability
>> questions that they asks. They don't wan't to run to the bbs site every day
>> to reset the system..
>
>At the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) Linux 2.0.30 has
>been running a link to the National Engineering University using Linux
>since August. I don't remember the exact version of the ax stuff, but it
>was the latest available when experiments began with replacing JNOS on
>MS-DOS with Linux back in June or July.
When I was running TNOS on Linux for a BBS, it would easily run for
months at a time without any problems whatsoever. Stability is *not*
a problem!
>That said, I would recommend scheduling periodic reboots using cron, just
>to make sure everything gets reset to a known state every once in a while.
>A scheduled 5 minute down time once a week or even once a day in the very
>early morning shouldn't bother users if they expect it.
Al, I'm afraid that this is a learned JNOS behavior! ;-)
You shouldn't have to do this anymore... and you don't
even have to feel guilty! :-D
73
Mike N4CNW