Uptime gloating.

[sobrique]

mephit[erolison]:[~]$ ssh balor uptime
  4:15pm  up 1201 day(s), 3 min(s),  0 users,  load average: 0.48, 0.98, 1.16

Sadly this machine will be shutting down for a while in the not too distant future.
Never the less, this is still something of a victory.

Gloat, gloat, gloat.

Comments

[mcnazgul.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't be surprised if you had servers called vrock and hezrou either.

.oO(Hi, I'm a security consultant. That'll be £1K. Plus expenses!)

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

No vrock, but we do have a grell, grick, fihyr, kraken, hamatula, hezrou (VMWare servers - they all have multiple 'arms/tenticles') and solar which is the 'partner' server to this one :).
And mephit, and orc as workstations.

We have a naming convention, it's something daft like:
S (for server)
? (for 'function', e.g. F for file, D for domain controller, B for database)
???? location code (e.g. RUG1 for rugby, and additional for other sites)
And a numeric sequence number.

This gives us a long long list of servers called SARUG11010, SARUG10002, SBRUG40003 etc.
We're now having 'which one's that then' problems, because there's _no_ logical groupings on server names. Seriously, we have nearly 400 'nearly identically named' servers, it's ridiculous. So we ... opted out. They still _have_ official names, but ...