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I actually had to reboot a Linux machine tonight to get it to display web pages properly. Restarting apache didn’t do the trick.

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:55:00 -0500
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2 Responses to “Linux reboot”

  1. I smell some Linux idiots... - Page 13 - Hosting Industry Discussion Says:
    May 10th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    Kramer auto Pingback[…] > You sure, ’cause it’s laughably easy to find stories about unscheduled Linux > reboots, ala http://www.mcgees.org/2005/10/13/linux-reboot/  "Linux reboot  I actually had to reboot a Linux machine tonight to get it to display web pages properly. Restarting apache didn’t do the trick."  LMAO. What a moron.    Bother to grok my post, did you, guys? Or is it more fun to point and laugh?  I had to reboot the Linux machine to get it to display web pages to the *public* properly, i.e. *serve* web pages properly. Not render them in a browser. SSI was fubared and content was scrambled. An init.d script restart of Apache failed to rectify the situation. Browser caches had nothing to do with it.  Of course, I could do what other Linux aficionados do: lie about Linux stability. I’m sure that would get us somewhere.  Sincerely,  Joshua McGee Linux sysadmin (12 years), Red Hat Certified Technician, and Moron http://www.mcgees.org […]

  2. Joshua (Site Owner) Says:
    May 10th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    Welcome to the fuckheads who thought I just needed to clear my browser cache.  My Linux machine was serving corrupted pages to the public, not displaying old data in a browser cache.  An init.d restart of apache failed to fix the problem.  Rather than hunt around for the daemon that went haywire, I rebooted (restarted everything) and everything was served properly.

    Of course, the modus operandi of Linux users everywhere, whom I have met in the past twelve years of Linux use, is simple: lie and say that Linux never needs rebooting.  Me?  Not so keen on the self-deception bit.

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