On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:58:50AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> | Just curious how long people have left their system running
> | without reboot.
> | I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and it ran
> | fine. In
> | three years, I have never had to reboot because of crash.
> |
> | I have rebooted about once every 3 to 4 months (guessing average) after
> | maintenance. This was voluntary, not necessary. I don't run X either
> | (dedicated server mail/ftp/web). Anyone have any really long times for X
> | and non-X systems?
> |
> | Paul
>
> There was a post from Will Trillich on sept 14 about his box being up just
> over a year. I bet it's still going. I have a postgresql database server
> that gets constant use that has not had a hiccup in 67 days. I don't recall
> why I rebooted back then, probably a kernel update. I also have a test box
> (email/web/playground) that is frequently months without reboot.
yep, i'm still alive (and so's our server):
X-uptime: 10:59am up 429 days, 13:09, 1 user, load average: 0.16,
0.03, 0.02
apache/ftp/sshd server still going.... :)
we had a near-miss when the power went down for over an hour
during a nasty windstorm where we thought we'd lose our maple
trees for good. i shut everything else down that the ups was
guarding, and sweated it out--the other linux box had only
[ 'ONLY' :) ] been up for 160+ days, and that's where i run X and
konqueror and rxvt/ssh (to get into the real server). it's been
25 days ago, according to my X unit's uptime:
$ uptime
11:06am up 25 days, 18:46, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.14, 0.11
when we upgrade to woody, i'm thinking i'll have to restart
(gotta have the new kernel and all, you know)...
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #72 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Prefer to LOGIN IN VIA CONSOLE INSTEAD OF VIA GUI? No problem.
A freshly-installed "X" window display system by default boots
into GUI, instead of having you log in at the text console.
This is because of "xdm" or "gdm" or "kdm". To avoid this and
boot into console mode instead:
update-rc.d -f xdm remove
This will remove all system startup links in /etc/init.d for
xdm. You can still get X up and running via "startx" but it
won't intervene in your login process.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
