[shadowman99]

"For us it's 'kill pid'."

What's your best uptime?

My personal best (for one of my home systems) was 296 days. rebooted for a new kernel.

Show me a windows box that runs for 296 days without problems.

Show me a windows box with a user compiled kernel.

[Dimensio]

What's your best uptime?

The only Linux boxen that I manage are at home. My main machine usually gets shut down to cut down on electricity costs, since it isn't doing anything important when I'm not at it unless I've set up a long compile or download.

The box that I use for firewalling and IP masquerading (explicitly allowed by my ISP before any neurotic nutcases around here try to jump on me for that) has had uptimes that can be measured in months, though not yet in years. It's only gone down because of a system crash once, however, when one of the drives died (and the death of the drive was hardly the fault of the OS). A few of the other times were for kernel upgrades or power failures that lasted longer than five minutes. Oh, and when I put a new drive in, I had to bring it down for that.

I've taken a new position at my workplace, however, and there's a chance that I might be able to find a use for a Linux box somewhere on the otherwise Windows-only network (the network admin has been playing with Linux himself, and he's open to the possibility of using a few Linux network tools for traffic analysis). I just need a little time, and I can have the Lotus Notes server running on a Red Hat box, with user workstations accessing the client via Wine on a fresh Debian install. Muahaha!

[N3WBI3]

If anybody claims uptime of more than three months on a windows server they are either:

1) A liar, many windows patches require a reboot
or
2) A poor admin/user as you cant go 3 months without a serious windows patch