It’s just nice when you login to your machine and see something like:
11:50:20 up 919 days, 19:21, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.08
[Mon Aug 29 11:50:20] htor@benten:~
One can make some conclusions:
- 919 days no power outage (the server is hanging off a normal outlet)
- there were numerous network outages during this time
- the software raid also went on a rampage and halted the system for half a day (but came back afterwards)
- 919 days no kernel upgrade (I don’t know of any remote exploits for the running kernel, I won’t tell the version though ;-))
- the hardware (including the disks which make a strange sound since about a year) is rather robust (given that I got the machine from the department’s “dumpster”). The HDs will probably die once they stop spinning :-).