Journal Journal: 1000 day uptime 11
Ok, first off: I know "I haev teh l337x0r5 uptime" boasts are lame but this has me happy at some 14-year-old-who-just-installed-linux level:
$ uptime
3:43PM up 1000 days, 16:40, 2 users, load averages: 0.27, 0.06, 0.02
It's an ancient Pentium 166 MMX running FreeBSD 3.3 (OLD!) but has had all services touching the net up to date. The machine is well firewalled off and all packets hitting it are scrubbed with pf.
Look at all that disk space:
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0s1a 119055 34449 75082 31%/
/dev/wd0s1f 2887188 2118030 538183 80%/usr
/dev/wd0s1e 992239 162634 750226 18%/var
procfs 4 4 0 100%/proc
This machine was at an uptime of 683 days but a power failure which lasted long enough that the UPS failed happened 1000 days ago today.
When we moved our offices in the house around I carried this computer while Kim carried the chirping UPS along. Anything to keep the uptime...
Funny, other machines I have get upgraded every 6 months (OpenBSD) or every day (Windows) and I don't care about reboots. I also have a newer machine which is ready to drop into service when this one chokes but this old crapbox has a lot of nostalgic value for me. I have no idea why. It's weird to think that this has been running since well before we talked about having kids (our daughter is 18.5 months old now).
What's your lame uptime story? What have you done to keep the uptime going? We all have a story like this to own up to...