Uptime Baby!

[Jason]

George Toft wrote:
> 
> "J.L.Francois" wrote:
> >
> > The next time someone says Linux can't hang show them this.
> > This is a SparcClassic with  32MB RAM serving WWW pages
> > and my Sparc test platform.
> > Obsolete hardware to everyone but me.
> >
> > I wanted to get this out before I have to start turning equipment
> > off to mount in imy refrigerator converted to server cabinet.
> >
> > Woops, gotta go and reboot my wifes Win98 desktop, again.
> >
> > ==============================================
> > Linux heirophant 2.0.35 #1 Wed Feb 17 20:37:03 CET 1999 sparc unknown
> >   5:55pm  up 406 days,  6:57,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
> 
> Uptime is nice, but I hate to see uptime over 150 days - it shows that
> the kernel has not been updated against various exploits.  The 2.0.35
> kernel is about three years old, and I'm pretty sure there are some remote
> compromises up to the 2.2.13 kernel.  Maybe the sparc kernel is different?
> 
> Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

I believe that 2.0.35 was one of the first kernels not vulnerable to
the "nestea" attack... I think 2.0.34 was the first, actually, but I
am not sure...

My uptime is never that high because I like to fool around with the
hardware too much. This box only has 12 days right now, but I guess
that would still be a miracle to see on a Winblows unit.. heh.. Having
400+ days of uptime tells me one thing tho, he definitly has a UPS...

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