Useless bit of computer server trivia (Novell NetWare)

Metanis · Post by **Metanis** » May 22, 2003, 5:42 pm

I just retired my last Novell NetWare 3.12 server today. It was the Payroll Department's pride and joy. They migrated to a W2k platform a year ago. I left the NetWare box running "just-in-case". Machine and OS were the most stable boxes I've ever seen. Months of real-time use without a hiccup. So long Novell... it was good to know ya.

PS... Anyone ever heard of SYSCON?

noel · Post by **noel** » May 22, 2003, 5:48 pm

Yes, and I'm glad I don't have to see it/use it anymore.

Ajran · Post by **Ajran** » May 22, 2003, 5:51 pm

syscon is da debil

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » May 22, 2003, 7:24 pm

Solaris > Novell for stability.

We had a nameserver that was so old everyone was afraid to reboot it. It had over 1000 days uptime.

sarlen · Post by **sarlen** » May 23, 2003, 3:40 am

We have 1 novell server that is serving out Zen Works for all our desktop and laptop's that are imaged. It has to be by far the shittiest server out of the bunch. We get 200+ days up time on the NT machines(pulling that average out of my ass) and the novell server's up time is measured in hours some times.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » May 23, 2003, 12:35 pm

while i was at UF, one of the mail servers was running an extremely old version of Slackware, with the 1.4 kernel (2.3 was in development at the time). it was a 486 dx33, nothing fancy at all.

in the 3 years i was there it had to be rebooted 2 times. once when a hurricane shutdown power for 3 days. second when the hard disk went in the shitter.

i was impressed by that, no high performance equipment, wasnt that customized of a kernel either (if at all). it had a low demand, route traffic from about 30-40 clients to the internet, and handle around the same number of mail accounts.

and i call bullshit on 200 days of uptime on an NT box

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » May 23, 2003, 5:12 pm

Sabek wrote:Solaris > Novell for stability.

We had a nameserver that was so old everyone was afraid to reboot it. It had over 1000 days uptime.

Heh, an ISP I worked at had an HPUX 7 workstation that had been up for a looong time. Can't remember the uptime, it was 3 years or so though. The admin who built it had quit a couple years before and the users never had any issues. No one knew it was there until I found it with nmap doing searches for Y2K patching.

Any commercial Unix > Novell >>>>>>> Win_X for stability. XP seems to be the best one they've built yet, I actually like it for a desktop. It has so many other issues though that it's just sad. I'd never put anything that made or lost me money on a MS operating system.