Fri, 01 Apr 2005, by hylton@global.co.za:
I have seen many folk who have signatures stating that the machine has been running for something like 400 days.
Whilst I applaud this type of reliability, I am wondering about the actual fs as the machine isn't rebooted so that fsck can check the partitions.
I'd be more worried about (kernel) patches that haven't been applied, or even if they are downloaded, they're not incorporated in the running processes. Keeping a server running for a very long time is often a way to ask for trouble when it's going down unplanned too (power-outage e.g.) That doesn't apply to dedicated hosts, with little or no human users or processes that need maintenance of course. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info.