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I was asked to look at something on a Debian box the other day and logged in to discover over 2 years have passed since a reboot. A bit dangerous, but also wond
by aidos 10y ago
I was asked to look at something on a Debian box the other day and logged in to discover over 2 years have passed since a reboot. A bit dangerous, but also wonderful to think about all that data flowing through without issue.
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoI love the idea of that, but it also means no security patches for that same period of time. I'd be weary of placing that host in any network with publicly-routable hosts.
- delinka 10y agoNo security patches to the kernel. You can certainly upgrade user-space items (daemons and the like...)
- syrrim 10y agoI heard you could hot patch the kernel as well somehow.
- PeCaN 10y agoYou can use stuff like https://github.com/dynup/kpatch https://github.com/dynup/kpatch or http://www.ksplice.com/ http://www.ksplice.com/ to apply security patches to a running Linux kernel, but that's still pretty new stuff. Stratus has been doing that since the 90s, though :-)