Re: [Fwd: [seul-edu] Samba and printing]

[Dan Kolb <dankolb@ox.compsoc.net>]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> dankolb@ox.compsoc.net said:
> >  Ha! Servers aren't *supposed* to be rebooted. Much. That saying, I
> > think Linux needs to be rebooted every 400-something days as that's
> > when it's got an internal clock rollover which can do nasty things to
> > it.
> 
> That shouldn't be a problem. If you find code which still suffers from
> this, report it as a bug.

Oh right. Okay. I've just heard that second hand that some of the Linux
servers in our e-mail cluster at Uni needed to be rebooted because of
the clock rollover. But I think they're running an older kernel (2.0.x
series, probably).

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