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

[Jeff Hubbs]

Randy -

So what's that box doing?

- Jeff

Randy Ramsdell wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:31 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>Paul Cartwright wrote:
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>>>On Wed March 15 2006 11:06 am, Sid Lane wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>
>>>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..
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>>>>so now that I've adequately grieved who's top dog on uptime now?
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>>>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
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>>>>uptime
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>>> 11:26am  up 7 days 17:58,  6 users,  load average: 0.33, 0.70, 1.00
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>>Here's the best I've got here:
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>>11:33am  up 131 days,  1:42,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.0
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>>yes, it's overdue for a kernel update and then some.
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>>cat /etc/*release yields:
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>>Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
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> 11:34am  up 867 day(s),  7:49,  24 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.20,
>0.36
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>rcr
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