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Subject: Re: Uptime?
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Mark wrote:

>So, we know BSD is capable of stupidly high uptime, but what
>I'd like to know is how? I mean, we all have to patch things
>now and again, recompile kernels etc. Does this mean these
>sites are running thousand-day-old unpatched kernels,...
>  
>

Yep!!  (AFAIK)