How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.

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Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43 pm

How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.

These days I rarely reboot mine. I'm currently running my BBS on Linux, and I don't know how much difference that makes, but I've often let it run for a long time and it seems okay. Usually I only reboot the PC when I do a software update that involves an OS kernel update.

Nightfox

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On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:43:11 -0400
"Rixter" (VERT/RICKSBBS) <VERT/RICKSBBS!Rixter@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:

How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my
board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.

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I reboot it whenever I update, which depends on how many updates there
are. I don't schedule any sort of reboot.
If you're worried about corruption of message bases, you can go through
and lock them all before doing an update.
smbutil options
L = lock a msg base for exclusive-access/backup
U = unlock a msg base
You'll obviously have to loop through all the bases, or you can just
take your chances.
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Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43:11

How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.

Updates and crashes..
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Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43 pm

How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my board

What year is it?

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Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43 pm

How often do you reboot your BBS PC?

Probably about once a week... but it isn't done automatically anymore... just when I feel like it.

Years ago, when my ISP liked to change my IP address whenever they felt like it, I had it automatically rebooting once a day.

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On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:43:11 -0400
"Rixter" (VERT/RICKSBBS) <VERT/RICKSBBS!Rixter@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:
I reboot it whenever I update, which depends on how many updates there
are. I don't schedule any sort of reboot.
If you're worried about corruption of message bases, you can go through
and lock them all before doing an update.
smbutil options
L = lock a msg base for exclusive-access/backup
U = unlock a msg base
You'll obviously have to loop through all the bases, or you can just
take your chances.
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telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23
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Thank you for the advice. ¨

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Nightfox said to you:

These days I rarely reboot mine. I'm currently running my BBS on Linux, and I don't know how much difference that makes, but I've often let it run for a lon
time and it seems okay. Usually I only reboot the PC when I do a software update that involves an OS kernel update.

My answer would be the same as this... I only reboot when there is some OS upgrade where I believe it is required or a good idea. Otherwise, I try
not to reboot it.


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