From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 02:41:54 2005 Return-Path: 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 34DA716A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:41:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9809A43D5D for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:41:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.173.27.15 with plain) by smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 02:41:53 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:41:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <42713B77.5020000@aixa.rot-1.de> In-Reply-To: <42713B77.5020000@aixa.rot-1.de> X-Face: "u-%.52Z_uQCP'Vdj{95/n*(sgAAm`F/p'b0zo%-DuBTdZ*qW!!/idDBRjkFfJD[Qe&>=?utf-8?q?=5F2=0A=09?=<}OGsEY~)n?NywZRi9xm-jH_VPg"8nTSzo:r8;U3oTQz|@z)|>%i+MRY2Y#>s~X`sV$&t"=?utf-8?q?=0A=09AkQ=5EU3rJIFCU=3F=5DcC=27F=26fY4=23Jf-=7D=3F7x?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504281941.50460.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: Stevan Tiefert Subject: Re: longest uptime X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:41:54 -0000 On Thu 28 Apr 05 12:37, Stevan Tiefert 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