I used to work for a company that had hundreds of IRIX Indy and O2 
machines running in the field. We used to run "uptime" just for grins on 
sites that we weren't familar with (ie, not a troublesome site) and I 
believe the record was over 400 days. 2 to 3 months was usually the minimum.

Tim Sinks wrote:
> That's hilarious!
> I one time had an HPUX machine that I didn't reboot for a year. It crashed
> because there was a hidden system log that was supposed to have been turned
> off shortly after we brought it up. The log filled up as it was limited in
> length or lines and when it filled, it stopped the system because it was
> required to write a message. We were lucky it was at a reasonable time of
> day and the SE knew about the problem.
> Most Unix/Linux systems don't need rebooting unless your adding something
> that requires it.
> Maybe another 10 years they'll get it right!
> Keep looking up,
> Tim Sinks
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Tanner" <tanner at real-time.com>
> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:46 PM
> Subject: [TCLUG] Hmm, uptime?
> 
> 
> 
>>Thought this was funny.
>>
>>http://mjt.nysv.org/humor/for_real/dotnet-crazy.png
>>
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