Shane writes:

> I was just chatting with a Service Engineer from Sun ( sorry about the introduction
...
> The feeling was that many machines would have
> never been shut down for that amount of time before,  and it would not surprise
> them to find hardware problems as these machines 'cooled' off and then warmed up
> again.

Similarly, for really long running systems, I'd recommend doing a reboot in early
December ... just to be sure it *will* reboot.   Don't wait until 2000-01-01
to find out :)

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