I started off with win98 had so many virus problems and blue screen of death, I moved to linux and had Redhat 6.2 till two months back. Probably that had uptime of 6 months or so at least. One month back I moved to Redhat 7.1 and it's been up for a month now.
Lot of times, I am afraid to reboot the box, because with limited time I have at home after a regular job and a part time school -- I don't put lot of things in startup script.
Hey, but there is no need to reboot. That old 166 box is my web server, firewall, my domain smtp server, Netsaint installation, samba server, MRTG, NIS, squid, squid guard, pop3 imap4 ...(I understand all these on one system it is a security threat). With all these, it just runs and runs and runs.
Sundar
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:22:39 -0700
"George Toft" <
george@georgetoft.com> wrote:
> I guess we are quite on the opposite ends of the spectrum. I got
> started in Linux because Windows 95 crashed about once an hour on
> me. I can't keep a Windows box running for more than a week, yet
> my Linux and Solaris boxes are hardly ever rebooted (only for
> security updates). For the Windows 98 and Linux workstations, I
> have very similar usage patterns, so it's not like I'm using them
> differently. One is a Timex (keeps on ticking) and the other,
> well, dies avery few days.
>
> If you care to share your secrets to keeping Win98 running, I
> would appreciate it.
>
> George
>
>
>
>
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> >
> > My win98se box stays up for months at a time as does my win2k. I've seen little difference between the win98 and my rh72 boxes for this. The rh72 box does occasionally lock up and force a hard reboot.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: George Toft [mailto:george@georgetoft.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:29 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Woohoo!!!
> >
> > I am sharing with everyone that for the first time in over a year,
> > I have a Win98 box up for over 4 days. It used to crash once per
> > day, and usually flakes out after being up for 3 days.
> >
> > George
> >
> > Isaac Sparrow wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > > > C:\WINDOWS>uptime
> > > > 00:41:07 up 6 days, 5:17, 1 user
> > > > C:\WINDOWS>
> > > </snip>
> > > Am I missing something here???
> > > --
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Isaac Sparrow
> > > Staff Engineer
> > > VisiComp, Inc.
> > > http://www.visicomp.com
> > >
> > > GnuPG Key Fingerprint:
> > > 1060 5A07 F6EC B2B3 9AAA 3EA5 7B79 EFE1 6397 4F47
> > > Get my public key at:
> > > http://www.concentric.net/~issparow
> > >
> > > The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:46 pm, George Toft wrote:
> > > > I am not bashing Microsoft, but in a fit of glory, I must share
> > > > my elation. I have nursed my Windows box along to record heights
> > > > in uptime:
> > > >
> > > > =============================================================
> > > > Microsoft(R) Windows 98
> > > > (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1998.
> > > >
> > > > C:\WINDOWS>uptime
> > > > 00:41:07 up 6 days, 5:17, 1 user
> > > > C:\WINDOWS>
> > > > =============================================================
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > George
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