From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 1 20:51:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC5DC14FDA for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:51:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 73754 invoked by uid 100); 2 Sep 1999 03:51:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Sep 1999 03:51:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: Neil Long Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question of longevity In-Reply-To: <990826161120.ZM4951@ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Neil Long wrote: :->I have a FreeBSD+drawbridge host which just runs and runs and has no :->problems. It has been up now for 444 days :->(2.2.6-RELEASE DRAWBRIDGE-3.0b2) :->and I am planning to upgrade it RSN! :-> :->Just wondered if FreeBSD ever suffered the 'uptime' problems that the :->L-Word did/does (498 day uptime can cause panics in some Linux :->kernels). I understand there was a bug in one of the early BSD distributions, such that the day field didn't format properly if it was more than three digits wide. Looks like it's fixed in this version, though.