Time to Say Thanks For the Uptime

DepecheModem writes: "MSNBC is running an article about System Administrator Appreciation Day. Ted Kekatos created this holiday three years after seeing a poster of a system administrator being bombarded with presents. Feeling somewhat underappreciated, he declared his "day" as the last Friday in July. I think we should all remind our employers that administrators are people too and proudly wear our buttons bearing "Have you hugged your geek lately?"."

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My uptime champion is gone.

[AtariDatacenter]

It had a panic a month ago after another admin commented out some functions in the /etc/inetd.conf, and kill -HUP'd the inet daemon. Too bad. The little Sun E450's uptime was over 1000 days, which dates its last reboot as before Y2K. The firmare is still dated from 1997.

Bless its little kernel. We're finally getting a backup box for it. We couldn't patch it before because there wasn't a test/dev environment. And we didn't want to bring it down, because it served a critical production function. HA!

Having boxes that are caught up in politics really makes a sysadmin's job tough. Even worse is politics, and no money!

Re:Could you be more clueless?

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

Why would that be a troll? Just because it does not happen where you are does not mean that it does not happen where I am. Was not a plug at developers, just a pop at someplace I use to work.

Then again, your right it could just be a troll....wink. You never can tell with me.

I get a lot of:

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