server uptime

Warren Luebkeman warren at resara.com
Wed Mar 19 15:51:13 EDT 2008


Sounds like someone is insecure about their uptime... ;-)

I do understand your point thought.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com>
To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:36:59 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: Re: server uptime

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.

-- Ben
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