The problems with high uptime

My web server has been up for more than 2 years without a reboot. I’ve had to restart certain daemons that have died after running for a year, etc.

It dawned on me that as uptimes get longer and longer, and software gets more and more reliable, we might get machines that stay up for decades.

At that point we might want to force people to log out after a certain amount of time. Say, 30 years.

We could write a program that would enforce this rule.

(wait for it... wait for it...)

And we’d call the program “login’s run”.