Hi, Kurt-


 KW> IMO, it's better to have a regularly scheduled 
 KW> maintenance window so you can
 KW> take the system down cleanly without impact to your users, do hardware PM
 KW> (...your kernel can stay up for 3 years, can your fans 
 KW> stay dust free? Memory
 KW> and cables remain firmly seated?) and test your failover systems.

I couldn't agree with you more.  While it's all fun and stuff to brag about
your system's uptime, a good server administrator knows that the computer
can suffer a lot of problems if it's not cleaned regularly and needed
security measures aren't audited and improved on a schedule.  I can tell
you've maintained a system or two. :)

 KW> (none of this applies to my BBS, of course...)

I think I rebooted my BBS system ten times yesterday while putting in
hardware, fixing little things and what-not.  But once I get things to
where I want them, the BBS will stay up for months and months on end with
no problems.  My personal record was nearly ten months of uptime for the
BBS in 2008 after my car accident.  I just didn't touch the BBS and it
hummed along nicely.

Maybe I should quit tweaking the BBS so much and it'd stay up longer. :P

Later,
Sean

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