I am uneasy every time I have to reboot my server remotely, my Treo wouldn’t stop ringing if my clients’ sites are offline for an extended period of time. Yesterday I had to upgrade my kernel due to several remote and local exploits, I used Aptitude to upgrade my kernel packages and the installation script advised me to reboot ASAP as some of the kernel modules were modified. I guess I didn’t have any kernel modules that are reloaded on the fly, so my server actually worked fine without a reboot. I waited til 2am PDT to do a reboot and it magically came back up. Kudos to the Debian kernel packages maintainers. 🙂

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