10 years, RIP
Posted Mar 31, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC
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Wow that's a LONG time. Kudos
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With regular software upgrades and in-place kernel upgrades, that is no issue at all, especially when it's an internal machine as OP stated
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live-patching the kernel is generally a bad idea; opens up a host of exploits. Lots of admins actually block the required syscalls.
Furthermore, some programs need to be restarted, especially when doing something like a libc upgrade. If you have to restart many daemons and you have a kernel upgrade, you might as well just reboot.
If you optimize your boot sequence you can get a few 9s of uptime this way on a single machine. With rollover it should become a non-issue.
Uptime dick-measuring contests are pointless at best and dangerous at worst. For an internal server it might not be a big deal, but let's not shrug these practices off.
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Who cares. I got internal servers that have no incoming traffic from outside. I leave them be mostly
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tbf Linux can mostly handle it, compared to a proprietary bloated OS named after a housing component we all know and love. Not that it should stay up that long of course.
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Comments like these are so cringe
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we all know and love
Let's not get too hasty on that last part
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What did this machine do for work?
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inb4 public web/mail server without 10 years of upgrades...
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Internal software mirror.
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What did it run on Redhat 4 or Redhat Shrike?
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CentOS 5
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It is a thing of wonder. Wondering why Windows can't get past 10 hours without some issue.
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Windows 11 has actually been known to make it to 11hrs, in controlled tests.
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So THAT'S why it's called Windows 11...
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Man, they used to be so good back during Windows 98...
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Well, the original 95 and 98 crashed after 49.7 days of uptime...
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I don't know if this is meant as a joke and I don't consider myself a fan of Windows by any stretch, but I use it on my desktop for various reasons and have never had any trouble with multiple weeks of uptime. For what is meant to be a non-server operating system that seems wholly acceptable to me. Sorry if this was just a "10 hours because Windows 10" joke and I got whooshed, but I wanted to throw my two cents in.
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It has gotten better, but being helpdesk for a large company, any computer I have had issues with has had an uptime >4 days and a reboot usually solves it.
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It doesn’t though. Kicking the can down the road isn’t fixing the issue. If a reboot fixes a computer up 4 days or more, there’s a software issue.
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Not much can be had for these systems used by multiple users almost 24/7 and I know they are not top notch systems. A combination of sub-par computers and user issues, but yes, I agree
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Windows server has no problem achieving long uptime, although they mostly require a reboot once a month for patching. Then again, so does our Linux servers as we don't do live kernel patching. Linux has a lot of good features, but bragging about uptime is a thing of the past imo.
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As I said, it is better, but being on a helpdesk for a large company, I can't help but take notice that most windows 10 issues are resolved by a reboot.......Usually with uptimes > 4 days
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Haha windows virus bad
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Maybe because it's actually being used and not sitting idle?
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Think of all the exploitable kernel vulnerabilities left unpatched...
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Oh, distro was long past EOL. Wasn't just the kernel.
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or think about wrong setup in secure server. i lost control 4 times on my linux install. first whas during study, i gave remote shell and didnt have time to update kernel becouse of exams. after kernel update i saw real history of command the user and what exploit he used to get root access. Second loss was when one of my samba server user get hacked with crypto virus. he lost his data but also the virus encrypted data on samba share. 3 example was totally my fault. i setup libvirtd on server with access to it over ssh in local network. access to server from internet was done with openvpn so i didnt setup password in vnc. vnc gave access to terminal login screen so there was some level of protection. i missed the point that default setup for vnc in libvirtd is to kisten on all network interfaces. so it was also on public ip. i saw this in realtime on vnc when someone else tried to login as root but with wrong password. ip address that bot was from china. and last one mistake was with redis. left it on public ip and in few hours found in bash history of redis user some commands. some wrong shell scripts mixed with binary and some additions to crontab also mixed with binary. it was some kind of crypto currency botnet. so system may be up yo date but its setup wrong.
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Still… patch management?
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Shit hasn't been breached in 10 years!!! He's good!!
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Or (s)he doesn’t know…
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Awsome ... over 10 Years, but this granny wasn't reacheable over internet ?
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F :/
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Nice! Any regrets?
I've got one going a little over 6 years. I really, really want to repurpose it, but I also want to try for the 10 year mark.
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Nice!
I had a CentOS 6.x web server I last clocked in at 2500ish days then it got hacked. Never managed to get the final uptime figure since it was a leased server so no console access.
I was meaning to migrate everything to newer OS but got lazy. Got burned. Money was part of issue too as only way to migrate a leased box is to lease another and pay for two for a while until I get everything moved over.
Never really figured out how they got in but OVH has a rescue mode which I used and was able to look at logs, and it looked like they used some kind of code injection technique in apache and ran /usr/sbin/setup so who knows what they did from there. All the log files from all services were showing a bunch of giberish too so I presume it was some kine of memory/buffer overflow related hack that probably corrupted the memory in the process. I don't think they got any data, since I think the hack itself also crashed the server before they got a chance to do anything.
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Slightly off topic: what font is this?
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Caskaydia Code Mono Nerd Font
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.1.0/CascadiaCode.zip
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Are you gonna recicle that? Cause I could use that machine, it's newer than some of mine by a whole 5 years 😂
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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Rest in peace... You did your job, we wil remember you
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o7
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Yooo
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That 0.00 loadaverage tells me it probably should have been powered off years ago...
You're not wrong.
It was still doing a handful of requests per day, but absolutely should've gone a long time ago.