From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 19:57:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C99A16A401 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:57:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.100.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEED43D60 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:57:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.cis.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k2EJvuhn095047 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:57:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <200603141957.k2EJvuhn095047@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:57:56 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Subject: 1,000 Days Up Time Freebsd4.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:57:57 -0000 We recently had a FreeBSD4.7 system almost make it to 1,000 days uptime. It may have actually done it but it also appears to have rebooted itself just as it reached 1,000 days. Is anybody aware of any kind of counter overflow or anything along those lines that might have caused the reboot? Obviously a system that has been up for that long without a break isn't too sick, but I can't imagine what happened. There are no signs of anything being wrong. After it rebooted itself, it just kept on ticking like it has for the last 2-and-a-quarter years. I looked in /var/log/messages and found no tracks. The last message was a routine message about the dhcp lease it had and then a few minutes later, the next message was the copyright notice on the kernel as the reboot started. That FreeBSD is just wonderful, though. I know of some other popular OS's that can't even dream of that much uptime. Thanks for any useful information. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group