Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-11-03 Thread new_guy
t refer to them as 'controllers' back in 1999). You'd be surprised... especially in higher-ed IT environments. Research professors with Nobel Peace prizes in science have dusty, old research labs full of systems like this... and yes, they are online :) -- View this message in

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-11-03 Thread Lori Barfield
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across > an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The > only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-30 Thread Laurent CARON
Marco Peereboom wrote: Now *that* is nuts! Not upgrading IOS every other day that is... What about having the greatest downtime ? Means running windows ? Nope, sorry, just not having the computer plugged ... Ain't that great ? ;)

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
9 days and it stills blink green leds. The >> harddisk never gave up too. No errors on dmesg. >> It's a Netra T1 machine, running our internal DNS server. I think >> we'll replace it when it dies ;) >> >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Gilles Chehade <[

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-30 Thread Pete Vickers
ernal DNS server. I think we'll replace it when it dies ;) On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: new_guy a icrit : I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It ha

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-30 Thread Alexey Suslikov
Han Boetes wrote: > Gilles Chehade wrote: > > [snip] > > ...and in OpenBSD land you better have a GOOD reason to have an > > uptime longer than two releases. > > [snip] > > Gilles, > > proud to never exceed 200 days of uptime > > Speaking of which... I think I have a pretty good reason to bring >

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-30 Thread Han Boetes
Gilles Chehade wrote: > [snip] > ...and in OpenBSD land you better have a GOOD reason to have an > uptime longer than two releases. > [snip] > Gilles, > proud to never exceed 200 days of uptime Speaking of which... I think I have a pretty good reason to bring down my uptime very shortly. YAY! ~%

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-30 Thread Gilles Chehade
Andres Genovez a icrit : It is not the size of your uptime that matters, it is what you do with it. Nice One :) Well, I can see a pattern... Every year or so, someone runs into a Linux box that has not been rebooted or patched in a LONG time, usually because someone else hig

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread Andres Genovez
2008/10/29 Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > new_guy a icrit : > >> I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran >> across >> an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. >> The >> only reason it w

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread bofh
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:49 PM, guilherme m. schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok it's not OpenBSD, blame on me. But what i liked is that this > machine is working for 2639 days and it stills blink green leds. The We bought 2 machines (together). Expensive ones. After putting them in, my p

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread guilherme m. schroeder
r 2639 days and it stills blink green leds. The harddisk never gave up too. No errors on dmesg. It's a Netra T1 machine, running our internal DNS server. I think we'll replace it when it dies ;) On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > new_g

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread Gilles Chehade
new_guy a icrit : I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I thought to myself, "I bet I could run an OpenBS

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread Mike Swanson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Guido Tschakert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, > > what about 180-190 days uptime max? > Afaik you need to reboot your OpenBSD when you upgrade in May and > November... > > guido Just hope an important kernel update doesn't come by within those six months. ;)

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread Artur Grabowski
new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across > an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The > only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I > thought t

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread Guido Tschakert
new_guy schrieb: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across > an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The > only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I > thought to myself, "I bet I cou

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Lawder
D] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J.C. Roberts Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:30 PM To: new_guy Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Longest Uptime? On Tuesday 28 October 2008, new_guy wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran > across an old SunOS

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, new_guy wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran > across an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had > been hacked. The only reason it was not an open mail relay is that > /var was full. So, I thought t

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread bofh
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Jason Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as uptimes I don't have records of I think Art's the final word, but one of the more impressive uptimes I heard about was this vax system in .de or some such. They kept the uptime even across 2 cross-town moves!

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Crawford
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across > an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The > only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread William Boshuck
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:54:12PM -0700, new_guy wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across > an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The > only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I >

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, new_guy wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across What is your point? Dogs live way longer than that. Just put one in front of your hosting provider and you should be safe for about 15 years. Nice things about dogs is that t

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread Stephane Lapie
On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:54 AM, new_guy wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I > ran across > an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been > hacked. The > only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So,

Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread new_guy
I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I thought to myself, "I bet I could run an OpenBSD box for that amou