The problems with high uptime
Sep. 27th, 2005 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomMy 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”.
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”.
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:38 pm (UTC)I've had machines on the network here with 1200 day uptimes. I knew they weren't fully patched and had known security vulnerabilities as a result.
(and I'm not even going to groan at the joke0
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:42 pm (UTC)then why did they call it auto-logout?
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Date: 2005-09-27 04:20 pm (UTC)and only people of our generation will understand that bad joke too.
Totally unrelated to this post..
Date: 2005-09-27 05:04 pm (UTC)Just so ya know...
Hugs!
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Date: 2005-09-27 05:10 pm (UTC)Check your references!
(the movie got it wrong, because the underlying story about age politics didn't seem nearly as exciting as the surface adventure story)
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