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From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: longest uptime
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Joshua Tinnin writes:

> 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.

Is FreeBSD so insecure that it must be patched every few days?  I hardly
ever see FreeBSD security issues on Bugtraq, and the ones I see often
have nothing to do with Net attacks.  A properly configured FreeBSD
server with no local logins should be quite secure.  The only problem
I've ever had resulted from a bug in Apache, and Apache obviously isn't
part of FreeBSD.

-- 
Anthony