Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:41:50 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Stevan Tiefert <stevan@aixa.rot-1.de> Subject: Re: longest uptime Message-ID: <200504281941.50460.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <42713B77.5020000@aixa.rot-1.de> References: <42713B77.5020000@aixa.rot-1.de>
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On Thu 28 Apr 05 12:37, Stevan Tiefert <stevan@aixa.rot-1.de> wrote: > Hello list, > > if I want to do a uptime-record I have always the possiblity to shut > down daemons (when needed) and start them again, without rebooting > the system! That is very nice! I had many days and weeks running my > nicely freebsd-server. BUT every time I updated the patchlevel (in > example 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14) I had to reboot my > system. But then the counter of uptime is starting at zero again :-( > > Question: Is there a possiblity to run the system inclusive patching > it, without rebooting? Goal is to run a system maybe longer than a > year!!! As others have said, no, and it's not really important, though FWIW, my uptime is always as long as my machines run without me rebooting them, meaning they'll stay up until I say otherwise ;) They never go down on their own. I have a laptop running close to a month now, and the only reason it's not longer is because I wanted to update to 5.4-PR. But ... rebooting in order to update for security fixes is not a bad thing. An long-unpatched FreeBSD install on a DMZ server makes me a bit more edgy than knowing the uptime will reset to zero when it's rebooted after updating. - jt
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