From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 2 13:37:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moebius2.Space.Net (moebius2.Space.Net [195.30.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01FDE15B8F for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maex@Space.Net) Received: (qmail 6683 invoked by uid 1013); 2 Sep 1999 20:37:49 -0000 Message-ID: <19990902223748.O4058@space.net> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:37:49 +0200 From: Markus Stumpf To: Mike Meyer , Neil Long Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question of longevity References: <990826161120.ZM4951@ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Meyer on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:51:36PM -0700 Organization: SpaceNet GmbH, Muenchen, Germany Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:51:36PM -0700, Mike Meyer wrote: > :->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. 498 should not be a problem on 2.2.6-RELEASE (except it was broken after 2.2.1) ... $ uname -v FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE (CHDKERNEL) #0: Mon Jun 23 16:49:02 CEST 1997 $ uptime 10:34PM up 661 days, 1:59, 2 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.10, 0.08 :-))) \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research & Development | mailto:maex-sig@Space.Net | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message