Maintaining Linux?

[Snipor]

With any thing, manintance is needed. You have to chance oil in a car, you have to run defrag on windows often. What things are needed to run to maintain linux? Is there some type of a defrag utility of rebuildling of the desktop? Just courious. I want to make sure to keep my linux machine running at full capability.

Also, has anybody else noticed that applications take longer to load with gnome then they do with kde?

Thanks for the support in advance.

 

[Snipor]

There has to be something to maintain Linux. NObody knows?

 

[DumTech]

A lot of it is done by setting up cron jobs that do various things like rotate logs, run tripwire, update the locate db, etc. Your distribution probably installed a default crontab that is taking care of all of it for you already. Check /etc for some cron.* directories. These will contain the scripts cron runs hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly...

Defragmenting isn't really the issue with Linux that it is with Windows.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

In theory the ext2 filesystem does not require defragging. If you really want to you can use Stephen Tweedie's ext2defrag --> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/defrag/ but its at your own risk.

More realistically, you want to keep up to date with new rpms for bug fixes, new features, etc. This depends on which linux you have but, for example, theres the redhat update agent (

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/update-agent.html)

or ximian's red carpet (

http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_red_carpet/)

As dumtech says, most of the 'housekeeping' goes on under control of the cron daemon which runs regular daily, weekly and monthly tasks.

Regards

 

[Snipor]

Hey thanks, didn't know about the red hat update agent. You guys were helpfull. Have a nice day.