[ale] uptime

[Tim Watts]

Strange. I thought reboot was the windows version of the Swiss Army
knife...


On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 22:38 -0400, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> We had a NT 4.0 PDC that was up since early 2000's...wasn't replaced
> (or rebooted for that matter) until 2008 when it was finally retired
> from service.  Needless to say it was a four-star mess...nothing
> worked right but management was far more afraid of rebooting it than
> not.  Those of us in engineering just shrugged our shoulders....
>  
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Lightner, Jeff 
>         To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! 
>         Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:48 PM
>         Subject: Re: [ale] uptime
>         
>         
>         LOL - I think the record for a Windoze server is probably
>         going to be closer to 30 days.than 1000 days.  :-)  
>         
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>         From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
>         Behalf Of Dustin Puryear
>         Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:37 PM
>         To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>         Subject: Re: [ale] uptime
>         
>         
>         C:\Documents and Settings\dpuryear>systeminfo | find "Up Time"
>         
>         System Up Time:            4 Days, 20 Hours, 31 Minutes, 27
>         Seconds
>         
>         ;-)
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>         From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
>         Behalf Of Jerald Sheets
>         Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:06 PM
>         To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>         Subject: Re: [ale] uptime
>         
>         
>           3:05pm  up 850 days  8:14,  1 user,  load average: 0.01,
>         0.02, 0.00
>         
>         
>         ---
>         Jerald M. Sheets jr.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Geoffrey
>         <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>         
>         Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>         > And the last time you upgraded the kernel and libraries, and
>         installed
>         > needed security patches was . . . ?
>         
>         
>         Too long.  Internal box, you can't get to it from there.  I
>         promise. ;)
>         
>         
>         >
>         > Sean
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 14:12:11 Robert Coggins wrote:
>         >>  14:11:41 up 1246 days, 22:55,  2 users,  load average:
>         0.52, 0.37, 0.25
>         >>
>         >> On 03/17/2010 02:08 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
>         >>> 2:11pm  up 850 days 16:32,  2 users,  load average: 0.00,
>         0.00, 0.00
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