From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 16:21:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA6F1065687 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8514B8FC1D for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.36]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id QAoa1a0070mlR8UA6GMvq8; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:21:55 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id QGMu1a0022P6wsM8XGMueK; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:21:54 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=tORYEjHdKfnWpnAJntUA:9 a=5sWnacibGE4y6hswES0meoKaq_8A:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CD58CC9419; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:21:53 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Chad Marshall Message-ID: <20081008162153.GA80866@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! 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: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:21:55 -0000 On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: > Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the > past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 > years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have much > reach but wanted to share with you since your community has made this > possible. Please indicate where I could post this to have a bit more > reach or if you'd like to put a link to my blog, I'd be more than happy > to provide that. I don't want to rain on your parade, but uptime ultimately means squat. I can install FreeBSD on a box under my desk at home, on a UPS, and leave it powered on for the next 30 years -- it tells people absolutely nothing about the reliability of the OS, or what kind of stress it's undergone during that time. Additionally, long uptimes also reflect directly on sysadmins: I take it to mean "the administrator is very lazy". There are security holes (kernel or userland/library-level) which are exploitable on boxes which have been up for that kind of time. I'm also making the assumption that said boxes have Internet connectivity, hence my point. Food for thought. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |