From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 5: 5:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi (bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi [193.166.133.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C774137B42C for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 05:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eyurtese@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi) Received: from localhost (eyurtese@localhost) by bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA58636; Mon, 21 May 2001 15:05:50 +0300 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:05:50 +0300 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: Ceri Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:(2) uptime limits In-Reply-To: <20010521121901.A10715@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I only need to restart my system if I update the kernel. I can update the software without restarting. (most software) Also for marketing purposes the uptime is very important nobody wants to buy something which he/she needs to upgrade every week and reboot. They want something which stays forever =) You know if you close your system for 5 minutes it might cost many bucks too. Evren On Mon, 21 May 2001, Ceri wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:08:32PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen said: > > I have heard hmm actually read at www.netcraft.com that FreeBSD doesnt > > show uptimes longer than 497 days and the uptime information would come > > back to 0 (especially in recent releases) > > If you have an uptime of 497 days then you basically have a system riddled > with security holes. > I personally believe that the integrity of the system is way more important > than whether you didn't turn it off for 84 years or whatever. > > Ceri > > -- > I probably wouldn't like you. Really. > I really probably wouldn't like you. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message