[Cialug] uptime

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Glad I wasn't the only  one... Its kind of an embarassing revelation...
But hey sometimes s*** happens....

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 15:23, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:56:59PM -0500, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > I just confirmed this with redhat. Yes, it is true you must reboot after
> > a kernel update. Wow... I missed the boat on this one...
> 
> Heh.  I thought one needed to reboot, too, but kept my mouth
> shut on this one for a while because for a time there was a
> project I saw referred to as "two-kernel monte" that would allow
> you to start a new kernel from a running one.  That was back in
> the 2.4 days, at least, maybe earlier, and I hadn't heard much
> about it since.  I thought it was defunct, but then you never
> know.  LVM hit a rough patch there for a while, and now it seems
> to be common enough, for example.
> 
> Anyway, my expectation is that even with something like that
> going, the uptime counter would reset anyway.
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