On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Jul 14, 2010, at 13:00:06, Mike Miller wrote: > >> One is Western Digital and the other is Samsung. I was having the same >> problem with either one. Check this out: >> >> $ uptime >> 12:54:24 up 224 days, 23:59, 23 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.09 >> >> I really want to reboot this machine, but I'm always using it for some >> big job. Probably within the next month or two I'll shut it down, >> upgrade some components, install Ubuntu 10.04 and bring it back up. >> Then I can test the file transfer speed again. > > *cough* > > ecrist at puma:~-> uptime > 1:15PM up 787 days, 3:17, 11 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07 > > It would have 1005 more days, but our data center where this box resides > had a PDU failure which knocked out half the customers. You know who > you are, data center. Oh, that's a FreeBSD box, so I don't suspects > many on a LUG list to see numbers that big. :P > > Before you all jump on me for not having it updated, it's a FreeBSD 4.11 > box on a private LAN running internal software. Rest assured this box > is on it's way out in the next 6 months. > > Anyone beat that? OK, you win, but it isn't necessarily a good thing to have a long uptime. Some updates require rebooting. In fact, I would have liked to have rebooted in May and upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 at that time. I don't think I have a security problem, though, because we have strict firewalls and only SSH comes through. I watch for security issues in SSH and I also use tcp wrappers to block SSH attempts from most domains, especially foreign countries. Mike