On Thu, 6 May 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

> 
> This says to me that we need to hAVE ACCESS TO A COMPUTER THAT HAS BEEn up for a LONG time (remote access) and we can run uptime on it so that we can show people there the reliability of the system.
> :-)Mike(-:
> 
> Some 25 years ago, a Fortune 300 company, I worked for, would start sending people home if the corporate mainframe (IBM/MRP) was down for more than 15 minutes.  They didn't know what to work on next.  Business suits can't afford down time.  Therefore, business suits need Linux, they just don't know it yet.  But, their comfort zone expands slowly.

That's a two-edged sword.  If I see a linux server with 300+ days of 
uptime around $work, it's getting tagged for a policy violation.  What 
violation?  It's running a kernel that hasn't been upgraded in a year and 
has multiple security vulnerabilities in it.  

Uptime shouldn't be a bragging right, it should be a delta between 
security reviews.  =)  Hey, that's .sig material.

Gary


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