From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 23 16:33:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47ED15498 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:33:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21640; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:32:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19991123192116.0479ed80@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:32:01 -0500 To: "Sameer R. Manek" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: RE: speaking of 3.4... Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <1797.943377479@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:25 PM 11/23/99 , Sameer R. Manek wrote: >mike@sentex.net recently posted an uptime of 526 days, that suggests that it >hasn't been upgraded to 3.x yet. Just because the new version is out, >doesn't mean it needs an upgrade. You need to evaluate your systems needs, >and compare it with the features available in the next release. Yup, the box is an internal access machine only, so I am not too concerned about the TCP/IP vulnerabilities. If there were not a 1 day power outage 526days ago, it would have been up since July 4th 1997 when I installed it. % uname -v FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jul 4 18:08:31 EDT 1997 I have kept the necessary user applications upto date over the past year and a half, but obviously never needed to reboot it. The machine does its chores, and does them well. I really dont have to touch it at all. The only thing we are concerned about is the disk drive which I imagine will eventually fail. Sadly, we plan to take it down over Christmas and pop a fresh 3.x STABLE image on it. wd0: 2015MB (4127760 sectors), 4095 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S At the time, it used to be a good sized drive! ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 519 651 3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message