On Sun, 5 May 2002, robin wrote:
> R P Herrold wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 4 May 2002, Bill wrote:
> > http://bopper.wcbe.org/uptime.txt
> >
> >prior run was 900+ days, current run is at 729 days
> >
> >"The administrator has not physically touched
> >it or its keyboard since 1997. It has no monitor."
>
> And a busted hard drive forced them to reboot.
and runs mgetty, a webserver, and a mailserver. The host has
been up since RH 4.x days. The upgrades have been done
remotely without touching it.
... It was just a 'bad spot' on the drive -- I determined the
file it was in remotely, and re-named it to:
XXX-dont-erase-bad-block
ALL REMOTELY -- I have not touched the box since 1997, still.
> Now I'm going to scare you: I was at my friend Joe's place
> (he's the Linux clonebuilder in Baltimore I mentioned a few
> days ago) one night, scarfing frozen Vodka shots, and he
> yanked the hard drive ribbon cable off of a motherboard that
> was running FreeBSD. It kept running. He plugged the hard
> drive back in, and it kept running.
Doen't scare me. This works in Linux with IDE drives, for
sure -- I've done it. The controller just thinks there is a
error, and defers for retry the queued writes.
-- Russ Herrold
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