Subj : Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
To : nelgin
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Aug 06 2024 08:06 pm
Re: Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: nelgin to Rixter on Tue Aug 06 2024 03:40 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.
> I reboot it whenever I update, which depends on how many updates there
> are. I don't schedule any sort of reboot.
Same here. I also do after I've run "fstrim" for maintenance on the SSD, which I try to do every 10-14 days.
> 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.
I cannot understand why anyone would do something like this. Why do such a
thing instead of just shutting down the BBS, then updating, and then restarting it? Makes no sense to me.
