server uptime

[Jarod Wilson]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Warren Luebkeman  
> <warren at resara.com> wrote:
>> Our server, running Debian Sarge, which serves our email/web/ 
>> backups/dns/etc
>> has been running 733 days (two years) without a reboot.
>
>  You're obviously not installing all your security updates, then.
> Both the 2.4 and 2.6 Debian kernels have had security advisories
> posted within the past two years.
>
>  In my experience, discussions about uptime typically involve
> approximately the same mentality as a penis-length competition.
> Especially since nobody really cares about what uptime(1) shows --
> it's service level availability that counts.  Who cares if your kernel
> hasn't been restarted but the email service was down for a month, or
> slow, or if your company's data is being harvested by a cracker who
> used some unpatched security holes to break in.

+1

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com