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Re: Uptime

Originally posted by illumin8
Here's my uptime by the way. This is from the Linux box on my desk, not sure how to screen capture on KDE:

luke@linux:~> uptime
2:17pm up 22 days 19:41, 4 users, load average: 0.35, 0.30, 0.21
luke@linux:~>

Here is one of the Sun servers I manage:

root@sunone # uptime
2:17pm up 147 day(s), 22:08, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.02
root@sunone #

The funny thing is, uptimes that are over 90 days are generally considered a bad thing by knowledgeable sysadmins now. It used to be like "bragging rights" to say "my box has been up for 400 days", but now it's like: "400 days and no security patches?" Anyone want to know a really easy box to hack into? :D
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;-) well have you ever tried linux my friend ;-) i suppose so, looking at your linux boxes. Well i hardly understand why you have to reboot. Security patches are working just fine without rebooting, ( beleive me i tried it... ) .
well, certainly you have to reboot to make your kernel update, but there is also another rule, never change a working system.
btw it is possible to update the kernel without restarting. just make a ramdisc, load all your important stuff in there, and halt the old system, also running on a ram disc.( of course you have to config that a bit. but it should work. )

btw kde is really not good as a window manager, personally i prefer windowmaker, fvwm2, and gnome if i want my desktop to be beautiful.
Never got how to make a screenshot in kde, apart, by starting gimp, and making a screen capture...
 
Re: Re: Uptime

Originally posted by maradong
;-) well have you ever tried linux my friend ;-) i suppose so, looking at your linux boxes. Well i hardly understand why you have to reboot. Security patches are working just fine without rebooting, ( beleive me i tried it... ) .
well, certainly you have to reboot to make your kernel update, but there is also another rule, never change a working system.
btw it is possible to update the kernel without restarting. just make a ramdisc, load all your important stuff in there, and halt the old system, also running on a ram disc.( of course you have to config that a bit. but it should work. )

btw kde is really not good as a window manager, personally i prefer windowmaker, fvwm2, and gnome if i want my desktop to be beautiful.
Never got how to make a screenshot in kde, apart, by starting gimp, and making a screen capture...
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Actually, I was referring more to the Solaris boxes when I was talking about security patches. The proper way to patch a Solaris box is to go to single user mode, apply patch, then reboot. Of course, you don't have to do it that way, you just risk corruption if you don't. Most patches other than a kernel patch don't really require all of this, but it's a good idea just to be safe.

Also, even on Linux, it is not possible to update your kernel without rebooting. You can update the kernel itself on disk, but the kernel that is running in memory will still be the older kernel. There is no way that I know of to unload the kernel without rebooting.
 
Re: Re: Uptime

Originally posted by maradong
btw kde is really not good as a window manager, personally i prefer windowmaker, fvwm2, and gnome if i want my desktop to be beautiful.
Never got how to make a screenshot in kde, apart, by starting gimp, and making a screen capture...
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As always, this is a matter of personal preference. I personally like KDE better than Gnome. KDE version 3.2 seems to have a lot of the eye candy you get with OS X as well. To each their own.
 
Re: Re: Re: Uptime

Originally posted by illumin8
Actually, I was referring more to the Solaris boxes when I was talking about security patches. The proper way to patch a Solaris box is to go to single user mode, apply patch, then reboot. Of course, you don't have to do it that way, you just risk corruption if you don't. Most patches other than a kernel patch don't really require all of this, but it's a good idea just to be safe.

Also, even on Linux, it is not possible to update your kernel without rebooting. You can update the kernel itself on disk, but the kernel that is running in memory will still be the older kernel. There is no way that I know of to unload the kernel without rebooting.
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well well , init big ramdisc, mirror the ram, kill the kernel or hug it up in the new ramdisc, load the new one, transact all of your ramdisc 2 to ramdisc 1. :) no idea if that works or not :D
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Uptime

Originally posted by maradong
well well , init big ramdisc, mirror the ram, kill the kernel or hug it up in the new ramdisc, load the new one, transact all of your ramdisc 2 to ramdisc 1. :) no idea if that works or not :D
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Dude! You can't "kill the kernel", it's not a process, and even if you could it would only bring your entire box down.
 
here I am... late to the party as usual.
This is my TiBook
 

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Fashionably late Mudbug, fashionably late.

Mines gone back down to about 8 minutes, I just installed the Airport 3.1.1 update.

Oh well, it's an excuse to start up Panther again :D

AppleMatt
 
My uptimes:
I dunno what my current box is. Probably about 14 days or so, i'll check when I get there.

I had a web server on a 350 Mhz iMac DV (maybe 400, unsure). But, after a while, it stopped being a web server because my domain name was bought out by a porn site.

(for those interested in mature black women, go to h**p://www.scotiasoft.net/ now does that sound like a porn site?!)

It was up for over 250 days... when I woke it up, the screen had a green tint covering the entire thing. Took two restarts to clear up. Then I installed Jaguar :lol:
 
My uptimes are lame, in general, as I'm usually tinkering with something or other. I know a guy who had an old Pentium machine running some wack OS ... I don't even know what it was... not Linux or Unix... anyway, he was using it it route email and had it up and running for about 4 years straight and then the processor burned out ;)
 
Today I was using my laptop and I checked the uptime. It was at 29 days + I never turn my laptop off and leave it in sleep mode when not using it. I mostly use my laptop on weekends for recording and viewing finishline video at bicycle races. during weekdays I seldom use the laptop except for some web surfing once in a while.

Mt desktop is up to 11 days + it is used several hours every day and it runs SETI 24/7
 
This is a 12" iBook 800 combo, it's been up a little over 53 days so far and it's still running quite well! I just close the lid when it's not in use and let it sleep. My dual 867 mdd powermac has been up 23 days it's used several hours every day and is folding on both processors.
 
OK, so this thread's been brought back to life again...

I'm at 1 day 22 hours, I installed an update that forced me to reboot.
 
Here's mine, almost 2 weeks since the last software update and I ran DiskWarrior as long as I had to restart. It was at about a month before that though. Sure do love that stable OS.
 
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