Also, if you're running, oh, say, and email or web server on you server
rack, you might be concerned if the server were rebooted, since the
service would be unavaliable for a while. On a heavily-loaded email
server with a large (ext2) mail partition with quota support enabled,
the checkquota proces alone will be intolerably long for the middle of
the day.
My suggestion: purchase a KVM. In my case, I've got a low-end 4-port KVM
on my racks. There are about 12 machines there, but most are running
Debian, so I rarely need a console connection on those. I leave windows
machines and our voice mail server attached to ports 1-3. Port 4 I have
as a "roamer" and attach to whichever Debian box I need at the moment
(had a machine that tended to lock up and segfault for instance).
By adding a KVM, not only have I eliminated the possibility of rebooting
a Linux machine when I intended to log into an NT server, I have also
largely emiminated having to rummage around the back side of the rack
swapping cables. I hadn't realized that was a problem until one of our
techs went through like a bull in a china shop and knocked the power
cord loose from my email server. Now, since I've made the NT boxes all a
pushbutton away, I'm the only one who ever needs to swap cables. Since I
had to clean up the mess whenever the mail server got abruptly booted, I
am much more careful than the people who caused the crashes.
As for pride:
SNMP station:
$ uptime
5:38pm up 272 days, 19:12, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.59, 0.60
$
Utility web server/general use server:
$ uptime
5:41pm up 205 days, 18:26, 1 user, load average: 1.03, 1.03, 1.00
$
mail server:
$ uptime
5:42pm up 285 days, 23:40, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
$
Web server:
$ uptime
5:43pm up 285 days, 23:38, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
$
... and people ask why we run Debian :-)
--Rich
Paul Wright wrote:
>
> >
> > so what does 114 days of uptime buy you?
> >
>
> A sense of pride.
>
> >
> > does it matter that much???
> >
>
> To me, no. To others, maybe.
>
> --
> Paul T. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -currently seeking employment-
>
> --
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Rich Puhek
ETN Systems Inc.
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