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Hugo Silva writes:

>  I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security
>  updates are issued. The reason for this is I work with shell
>  providers mostly, and the uptime is a big factor for the clients.

	Surely these folks can afford a spare machine on which to do
systems development and testing?


					Robert Huff