I had to reboot after about 200 days of uptime the other day because I updated netatalk, which created a new BE. I don't really understand why a non-kernel package, for a non-essential service, would need a new BE.
Is there a way to avoid this kind of thing so in the future I can brag about uptime? On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jason Matthews <ja...@broken.net> wrote: > > 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. > > Sent from Jasons' hand held > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov...@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Seconds to the drop, but it seems like hours. http://www.openmedia.ca https://robbiecrash.me _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
