expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I was a Linux admin on a team of fourteen. A Windows Server admin bragged at his server had gone a full two months without a reboot.
In fact, it was 65 days. The other Windows admins congratulated him. He came over to tell me the news, which I already overheard and sshed in to check my uptime.
“821 days uptime.” He got disappointed. That’s cool, because he was a jerk for many reasons.
But deep inside, I realized I needed to stay late after the call center closed, as it is a good idea to apply kernal patches to your firewall.
Yeah I was going to say, even just as a homelab admin, I can keep my OS uptime high if I want to, and just update my services, but I’ve missed some auto start fixes etc., where I updated and started the updated service manually, but then next power loss it didn’t start properly.
Now I try to make sure I reboot once a month when it’s convenient for me to fix issues to make sure all updates are applied and tested. And of course kernel updates like you say.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
821 days is a stress inducing amount of uptime
expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 59 minutes ago
It wasn’t that bad. And I had two routers for failover. That was the failover router; I just wanted to be an asshole towards the douchebag who has a wife at home with a newborn baby, who hit on women 15 years younger than him constantly.
So I b-lined to the machine that I knew would have the longest uptime.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 minutes ago
That’s more than 2 years. Maybe I’m just being hash but surely you would reboot the device at least once a year