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

[Randy Ramsdell]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:31 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Wed March 15 2006 11:06 am, 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.
> > 
> > I used to reboot the servers in our lab every week, just to clean out 
> > the tmp and wtmp files, right after my weekly backups..
> > 
> >> so now that I've adequately grieved who's top dog on uptime now?
> > 
> > not me for sure! too many kernel updates for SUSE, plus we only moved 
> > here in August!
> > uname -a
> > Linux PaulsPC 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 i686 
> > i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >> uptime
> >  11:26am  up 7 days 17:58,  6 users,  load average: 0.33, 0.70, 1.00
> 
> Here's the best I've got here:
> 
> 11:33am  up 131 days,  1:42,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.0
> 
> yes, it's overdue for a kernel update and then some.
> 
> cat /etc/*release yields:
> 
> Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)

 11:34am  up 867 day(s),  7:49,  24 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.20,
0.36


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