Uptime Baby!

sinck@ugive.com sinck@ugive.com
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:37:43 -0700


\_ If the machine is running unattended, it cleans out any processes that
\_ for one reason or another fail to terminate.
\_
\_ Netscape is perhaps the most heinous example of this (though that
\_ wouldnt be running unattended...) .. a crashed netscape can persist
\_ even after you exit from X!

You're running what kind of software on your production box?  SW that
doesn't clean up after itself.  Yi.

Netscape [browser] on a production box?  Double Yi.  That's almost as
bad as the fabled opengl screensaver on a NT server box....

David