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> Restarting services usually takes care of the majority of the sanity checks. Sure, that usually takes care of most checks, but the point is to eliminate as m
by mpk 16y ago
> Restarting services usually takes care of the majority of the sanity checks.
Sure, that usually takes care of most checks, but the point is to eliminate as much as possible unusual scenarios. A service-level restart will catch service config mismatches, but it won't catch, for example, manual interface or routing table updates. It also won't catch the 'fragile root' problem where the device that the kernel is loaded from has become corrupt.
Bad things happen in the strangest places if you run enough systems.
- rbanffy 16y agoTrue. You still would need to reboot from time to time, it's just that you can restart services much more frequently, even automatically if your humans know what is going down today and what can they expect if things go wrong. But I agree - the objective is to detect those situations when things have gone wrong a long time ago and we just don't know it yet. ;-)