Just wanted to celebrate that I have been able to keep my GPS based time servers running for over a year without interruption. Granted I have moved to pool server to a VPS using these Pi’s as the NTP source to bypass the AT&T connection throttling but it’s great to see long uptime and stability:
pi@pi1:~ $ uptime -p
up 1 year, 1 day, 42 minutes
pi@pi3:~ $ uptime -p
up 1 year, 11 weeks, 6 days, 17 hours, 26 minutes
Very nice Ron!
Personally i dont get past a few months because of regular software updates and the required restart.
This means you haven’t updated the kernel on your Pi’s for over a year?
That is correct. And compiled the time components from source, GPSD, NTPsec, and use Log2Ram to prevent any updates to the SD card. This is as close to an appliance I can get a Pi into. From a firewall perspective everything is locked down except for local access for NTP and the VPS server at my hosting provider for NTP. The VPS provides time to the public.