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Stupid question to those who work in the aviation industry: This seems like a candidate for an automated script that reboots the server every n days or hours.
by bliti 11y ago
Stupid question to those who work in the aviation industry:
This seems like a candidate for an automated script that reboots the server every n days or hours. Would such script be considered a potential risk? If so, why?
- reitanqild 11y agoAll of a sudden you have an emergency going on and a plane coming in in the middle of the night even though the airport is usually only open until 2100. And there goes the servers because of a stupid script. :-] Of course they went down anyway and by the far more likely cause of forgetting to reboot.
- jkot 11y agoToday it is even better. 2GB of updates will get applied after rebooting, before system starts.
- digi_owl 11y agoAnd that is why WSUS exists...
- thirdsun 11y agoThere was a story recently about a german 2nd division basketball team that ran their scoreboard on Windows and applied updates about an hour before the game - scoreboard wasn't back up in time, team lost since the match couldn't start within the allowed timeframe and of course this match was important, kind of an endgame and the loss led to the relegation of the team.
- tw04 11y agoWhich is why you have redundant systems. The scheduled updates allow you to validate that both are working so that in the event of an unplanned downtime, you aren't stuck scrambling to figure out why the redundant system doesn't function at all.
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoWell, there is the problem of how you use the server while it's rebooting...