> Shawn Walker writes: >> > But I'm a bit confused by the request. Is long uptime always a good >> > thing? It also means that you haven't taken the system down for >> > patching or regular maintenance and upgrade in years. That seems to >> > me like a dubious accomplishment ... sort of like "longest time >> > between baths." >> >> Not only that, is uptime really an indicator of operating system >> reliability, or hardware reliability and system administration >> policies? > > It's probably a testament to your local power company and your choice > of UPS. ;-}
I was called by a customer in Quebec that had a very strange situation. I am certain this has happened elsewhere also but on this call I had people in a datacenter asking me ( in french and some english ) how to login to a Sun server. It turns out that the sysadmin that set it up in 2000 left in 20002 and the remaining sysadmin was a pure Windows guy. He was terrified of the Sun server and thus he did everything he could to ignore it or just stay away from it. That Sun server was running production image processing software for the Hospital and I think Siemens was involved somehow. Regardless, the machine had not been logged into as root since 2002 and uptime was well up there in the five year range. A testament to magnificent SCSI disks also. I have data from the SMART firmware on the FCAL and SCSI disks and they were spinning and working non-stop year after year. at least .. until I told them to try a ( L1-A ) STOP-A on the console. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
