sshd and file descriptors

[Phil Howard]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:14:45AM -0500, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

| >From a full time admin view the concept that an RPM randomly restarts my
| services without me telling it SUCKS.
| 
| Why?  Configuration files changes.  I've seen too many people do RPM
| upgrades of critical services only to have a service that is working to
| fail or worse yet an interrupted connection which drops the ssh connection
| now leaving them unable to log into the box.
| 
| *ANYONE* saying a package manager should automately restart services
| without user interaction is cursing their users to pain and suffering.
| 
| =)  I'll stop ranting on the topic.

IMHO, anyone who needed the package manager to restart the service
for them because they forget to restart, or didn't know they needed
to restart, isn't qualified to be a system administrator.

Yeah, time to stop ranting ... here.  This is probably more appropriate
for some other places.

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