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Your photography level of interest...

	Don't own a camera
	Take holiday pictures once or twice a year
	Use a point and shoot regularly
	Actively try to take good pictures with my point and shoot
	Have a DSLR and working to be a better photographer
	Sleep with a tripod and camera under my pillow, never miss a shot

Date: 06/21/2005 Views: 327

Production Linux Server Administration is Boring!

Monday, 08 March 2004

I guess I shouldn't be complaining, but I'm discovering that administration of Linux servers is pretty boring in comparison to the world of patching and crashing that is Windows administration. I setup two SMTP gateways back in October on RedHat 9 with SpamAssassin. That was 150 days ago. In all that time I've upgraded SpamAssasin twice, bumped up the process limits for spamd after the myDoom worm tripled mail volume for a few days, and changed a postfix configuration or two. That's it. No patches, no crashes, no worms, and not a single reboot in 150 days six hours and forty-one minutes. In contrast, I have to patch and reboot all of our Windows servers at least once a month.

Do you administer linux servers? What has your experience been like?

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