Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Frank Zimmermann said:

> As long as your talking about servers this uptime thing is ok, but
> when talking about workstaions it's redicolous, premature and an
> unjustifiable waste of natural resources. I sometimes think Linux
> users just do this to show their Windows using friends how cool
> they  are.
>
> I shut down my machines at the end of the day.

if i did that id spend 20 minutes the next day getting
everything back to the way it was before. and 10 minutes
at the end of each day taking notes on what i was doing
that day, what files i had open in editors, what hosts
i was connected to etc. i have 32 ssh connections going
at this moment(all outbound)

my desktop(at work) also doubles a server(has a DLT4000
hooked to it for nightly backups).

i have so much going in terminals and stuff it would drive
me insane if i had to remember what was going on where and
have to relogin to all my various systems everyday.

i keep stats on my work desktop updated every 30mins
for the curious:
http://portal.aphroland.org/mrtg-config/sample/fury.graphon.com/

and stats on my home systems updated every 5 minutes.
http://mrtg.aphroland.org/

and a screenshot i took a couple weeks ago:
http://mars.aphroland.org/pics/x-desktop-11-05-2001.jpg

i like not rebooting because it reminds me on how unhappy
i was using win32. i was one of the ones that had to reinstall
the whole system 2-3 sometimes 4 times a year. would crash
at the most inconvient times. now i only reboot for hardware
changes and when i do i schedule kernel upgrades. ive
reinstallled win2k in vmware twice in the past six months
and i haven't even rebooted the host machine it runs on!
hah.

nate