Best sysadmin practices

@nina_kali_nina

Reminds me of the popular phrase, "Netcraft confirms it!" for server uptimes of years.

(I found private ssh key that I've lost in 2022, and discovered that the server is still up and running)

@nina_kali_nina i still have a server to which I lost access like 3 years ago because openssh update broek

it’s running HTTP.sh, and i was hoping i could pull a RCE through a (now fixed) bug in the templating engine. but it’s too old to have that bug, so i’m stuck :D

not much of note is on that machine and it’s oraclecloud free tier, so i just don’t care

@nina_kali_nina wasn't broke, never needed fixing ;)

@hyc I think I'll keep it as it is, yeah. `up 2382 days` now :)

@nina_kali_nina 😯

@pawv I mean, I kind of knew it was running, by circumstancial evidence

@nina_kali_nina nice.... but with uptime like that, you're eventually gonna have to worry about Y2038 :P

And a CVE or ten.

@hyc @nina_kali_nina

@wonka @hyc be my guest, it's basically a tilde or a Linux PvP server at this point

@nina_kali_nina Good server. Pat, pat. Skritch.

@nina_kali_nina
18:29:42 up 607 days, 5:33, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
ISP somehow broke ipv6 configuration 2 years ago, ruining uptime

@nina_kali_nina I had an old client track me down 7 years later asking “don’t suppose you know where this is hosted and have a password?” Luckily my password manager never forgets and I was able to help him. Goverment client and massive Varnish deployment meant he had literally no idea where the website was coming from :)

@wonka @hyc @nina_kali_nina

[18:23]      �Server� | [irc.cs.hut.fi] 242: Server Up 13714 days, 4:27:51

Good luck breaking it

@wonka @hyc @nina_kali_nina

I have a "Pocket Chip" computer at 2892 days uptime now. It functions as my alarm clock and keeps pretty good time considering I have not connected it to a network for NTP sync in several years. CVEs are meaningless in some contexts

@elithebearded @wonka @hyc somewhat related: I have a keitai that I want to root. Lots of CVEs useful for installing a virus or stealing passwords. Nothing to allow me root 😭🫣

@nina_kali_nina @elithebearded @wonka lol I always sift thru CVEs looking for ways to root my Android boxes too