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.

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