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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:00:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        mika ruohotie <bsdchat@shadows.aeon.net>
Cc:        wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uptime on hub.freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970919122818.22049G-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <199709191621.TAA23750@shadows.aeon.net>

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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, mika ruohotie wrote:

> > > 11:42AM  up 100 days, 14:29, 10 users, load averages: 0.41, 0.44, 0.47
> > 10:01AM  up 279 days, 19:56, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 
> just think about all those bugs and security holes in both systems...
> 
> starting from procfs thing.
> 
> i prefer my machines up to date, since rebooting new kernel
> takes machine off for just a minute or two.

	That's great for non-production machines that don't need 24/7 uptime,
but this server requires that level of uptime.  A minute or two can lead to
even longer if that new kernel has the slightly bug in it, something I 
experienced with a 'stable' kernel on a 'not-so-stable' machine awhile back :(

Marc G. Fournier                                 scrappy@hub.org
Systems Administrator @ hub.org              scrappy@freebsd.org




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