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

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

"Viron, Michael" wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > Dan
> Actually, people have had linux / Unix servers running for years at a time
> without problems.

Okay. Apparently the Computing Services were running an older version of
Linux. Apparently it was fixed in slightly later versions. Then again,
it probably wouldn't make much difference (but they don't like taking
chances).

Dan
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