Also, if you're running, oh, say, and email or web server on you server rack, you might be concerned if the server were rebooted, since the service would be unavaliable for a while. On a heavily-loaded email server with a large (ext2) mail partition with quota support enabled, the checkquota proces alone will be intolerably long for the middle of the day.
My suggestion: purchase a KVM. In my case, I've got a low-end 4-port KVM on my racks. There are about 12 machines there, but most are running Debian, so I rarely need a console connection on those. I leave windows machines and our voice mail server attached to ports 1-3. Port 4 I have as a "roamer" and attach to whichever Debian box I need at the moment (had a machine that tended to lock up and segfault for instance). By adding a KVM, not only have I eliminated the possibility of rebooting a Linux machine when I intended to log into an NT server, I have also largely emiminated having to rummage around the back side of the rack swapping cables. I hadn't realized that was a problem until one of our techs went through like a bull in a china shop and knocked the power cord loose from my email server. Now, since I've made the NT boxes all a pushbutton away, I'm the only one who ever needs to swap cables. Since I had to clean up the mess whenever the mail server got abruptly booted, I am much more careful than the people who caused the crashes. As for pride: SNMP station: $ uptime 5:38pm up 272 days, 19:12, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.59, 0.60 $ Utility web server/general use server: $ uptime 5:41pm up 205 days, 18:26, 1 user, load average: 1.03, 1.03, 1.00 $ mail server: $ uptime 5:42pm up 285 days, 23:40, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 $ Web server: $ uptime 5:43pm up 285 days, 23:38, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 $ ... and people ask why we run Debian :-) --Rich Paul Wright wrote: > > > > > so what does 114 days of uptime buy you? > > > > A sense of pride. > > > > > does it matter that much??? > > > > To me, no. To others, maybe. > > -- > Paul T. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -currently seeking employment- > > -- -- _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________