On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:39:41PM -0500, Matt Lawrence spake thusly: > Having a linux server with an uptime of 1188 days is pretty neat from a > geeky perspective. Having a production server on the network of a company > that handles billions of dollars in financial transaction that hasn't had > security updates in 1188 days is rather frightening.
And who knows what config changes have been made that will cause the machine or some service to fail to come up in the event of an unexpected/unattended reboot. I am seriously considering adding a nagios to check for every machine in our environment to issue a warning when a machine has been up for more than 3 months. If it hasn't been rebooted in 3 months it seems less likely to come up properly or be up to date on patches. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
pgpNbuTRU2Za8.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
