My church library database computer: ccox at fbcdb:~> uptime 3:50pm up 401 days, 5:06, 1 user, load average: 0.61, 0.22, 0.13 There have been a few local root exploits for the kernel... so I'm not sure about the general value of uptime right now. It's nice to know that Linux can run for thousands of days... but I don't have to see it to believe it.