[OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

[Jason Matthews]

long uptimes are not hard to achieve. i bet if i got my old sparc ipx out from college days and booted it the system would report about thirteen years if uptime. i think i last used it in the summer of 2000. 

i "shut it down" last time by putting it to sleep.  when it boots, assuming battery is good shape, it should have all that elapsed time as uptime. 

but you right, i didnt apply any patches. something tells me its as secure as the day i packed it away :)

j. 

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On Mar 20, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/20/2013 12:32 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>> It would only bring a tear to my eye, because of how foolishly
>> irresponsible that is.  3737 days of uptime means 10 years of
>> never applying security patches and bugfixes.  Whenever people
>> are proud of a really long uptime, it's a sign of a bad sysadmin.
> 
> 1) Reboot is only required when applying kernel patches or big
>   clusters which affect core services (and the admin is using BEs).
> 
> 2) Not all machines are web-facing and thus don't necessarily need
>   regular security patching.
> 
> 3) If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
> 
> Not everybody can afford the luxury of periodic maintenance downtime and
> certain systems are required to be 100% available, though I will admit
> that these are few and far between (and in most cases a good hot-spare
> policy will take care of this).
> 
> --
> Saso
> 
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