[ale] OT: mourning the end of an uptime...

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:06 -0500, Sid Lane wrote:
>> I know it sounds silly but I'm really bummed...  we were planning on
>> having a little party for it.  to put it in perspective my 3 yr-old
>> son did not exist (even as a parasite) when this box was last
>> rebooted.
> 
> That is so amazing to put it in that perspective.  To think that the box
> had last booted before you buddy was born 3 years ago.  
> 
> I think you may have a record on this list.  I've had boxes up past a
> year but typically rebooted them for upgrades.

These days, if you have a box that's up very long, you're likely to have 
a vulnerable kernel.  I can remember having uptimes over 1 year on a 
couple of p75s I was using as firewalls.

These days, I reboot after any kernel update.

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Until later, Geoffrey