On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:36:55 -0600 Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I have seen servers run for YEARS with no reboots. Most of > those admit, they don't upgrade them at all. One several years ago > said he hadn't even blew out the dust in that time. It was over 5 > years since he even logged into it. He kept his in a closet. One of > those was on the old show TheScreenSavers on Tech TV. Oh don't get me wrong I have servers with 5 year uptimes too. And they don't get kernel upgrades, so whatever security fixes have been done in the past 5 years those machines do not have. Uptime is not a ragging point anymore :-) Sadly, I *can't* reboot them. I can only replace them in the hardware replace cycle - the change manager wants to know from me what the risk is of doing the change. I tell him honestly there's an elevated risk of the drives not spinning up and <highly critical system> stops working. He just smiles and clicks the "deny" button on my change form :-) -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
