Uptime Statistics 4896

Well, that could be one of those 'urban myth' kinda things, but I for one would believe it. I've run Novell Netware on our fileserver for many years and Novell is the real deal. That old server just never needs any attention. The only reason it's ever been shut down is lack of power or to move things. It's uptime is over 5 months now, since we moved to new office space. I have no reason to think it will ever need a reboot. In fact, I can easily see it running without a reboot 'til the hardware drops dead. But I'll probably shut it down anyway in a year or two to change out the SCSI drives before they get iffy from age. They're 3 years old now.

On that fileserver, due to some software we have to use, I have no choice but to run either Win or Novell - no official support for Linux from the software manufacturer, at least not yet. Go figure. But Netware works so well I probably wouldn't mess with re-loading it with Linux anyway.

A while back someone saw I still was running Novell and actually asked why, and why didn't I load Windows Server 2003. Like Strother Martin said about Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, "Some people you just can't help."

-- Registered Linux user #266531