[ale] OT: mourning the end of an uptime...

[Geoffrey]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed March 15 2006 11:06 am, Sid Lane wrote:
>> I know it sounds silly but I'm really bummed...  we were planning on
>> having a little party for it.  to put it in perspective my 3 yr-old
>> son did not exist (even as a parasite) when this box was last
>> rebooted.
> 
> I used to reboot the servers in our lab every week, just to clean out 
> the tmp and wtmp files, right after my weekly backups..
> 
>> so now that I've adequately grieved who's top dog on uptime now?
> 
> not me for sure! too many kernel updates for SUSE, plus we only moved 
> here in August!
> uname -a
> Linux PaulsPC 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 i686 
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> uptime
>  11:26am  up 7 days 17:58,  6 users,  load average: 0.33, 0.70, 1.00

Here's the best I've got here:

11:33am  up 131 days,  1:42,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.0

yes, it's overdue for a kernel update and then some.

cat /etc/*release yields:

Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)

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Until later, Geoffrey