On 07/14 02:09 , Robert Nesius wrote: > So when I finally got my own workstation/office as a student intern I had an > xterm that I very very carefully never typed in to let it's idle time climb > up so that when people ran finger they could see one of my sessions was idle > for MONTHS! I'd run the command myself sometimes and congratulate myself > for being a made man, with my own ridiculously high idle-time shell. Yeah. > My office mates even knew about my "special shell" that I was cultivating, > and thus were immensely amused when I finally accidentally typed 'ls' in my > super-idle shell one day. GAH! > Anyway - you can all laugh at me now. Cool anecdote. I presume you didn't have 'screen' back in those days? (How far back does 'screen' go anyway?) I do know of people who used to be proud of how many months/years they were logged into a machine via screen. Highest uptime record I've seen on a linux box was 1056 days. Customer didn't pay for patches, and amazingly the power company kept the power on that time (customer didn't pay for a UPS either). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com