On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, adam bultman wrote:
> Well, Greg might want to put it in /run, but you, Arthur, might want to
> put it in /var/run .
>
> Not that this really has too much bearing on this particular discussion,
> but with me running RHEL/CentOS, and all the extra baggage (and yes,
> there is a ton of excess baggage that I wish I could get rid of but
> cannot thanks to dependencies) my servers still go down WAY less than
> the windows boxes here at work. Personal best for a server here is
> 1027 days nonstop uptime - I built it, it ran, and then I had to move
> to another server a couple years later - and that includes weekly
> patching via RHEL's patching stuff, which included everything, including
> kernels (I didn't reboot, so the newer kernels just sat in orbit around
> a central axis.) MySQL ran for at least a year without being restarted
> (only requiring that so I could have it listen on more IP addresses than
> just a single private IP).
>
> So, while we're on a rollercoaster of doom quite possibly could
> terminate into an ocean of gore and flying bodies, at least we'll
> require more than just our fingers and toes to count uptime.
:-) True, we're still better off, but for how long? And can you claim with
100% confidence that Linux in general is better off than it was 5/10 years
ago?
The premise of my diatribe is simple: as the desktop folks chase eye candy,
gee-whiz feature creep, and endless integration, they're forsaking the
fundamental design principles that made UNIX a robust and compelling
platform in the first place. I don't see things getting better, they're
getting worse. My $0.02.
--Arthur Corliss
Live Free or Die
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