Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:09:50 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! Message-ID: <1223510990.12779.11.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0810082243440.56322@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <DAC3662D-4B24-4986-87C3-7113A070A575@ahm-inc.com> <20081008223925.GB97321@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0810082243440.56322@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:47 +0000, Duane Hill wrote: > On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Frank Shute wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> > > > > Sorry to rain on your parade: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2008-October/005719.html > > Uptime over seven(7) years? Must be behind some firewall and not have to > worry about (what someone else has stated) kernel or userland updates. I believe there is at least 2 ways to achieve this without a security risk: 1. The updates were completed without rebooting (ie hot swapping the kernel). 2. The system was behind a firewall and not used for anything except maybe backups and/or file server. I know of an old system that ran for 3 1/2 years like this- name: Mother.
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