Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:23:39 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uptime limits Message-ID: <3B0908CB.F50BB3AF@iowna.com> References: <Pine.A41.4.10.10105211407060.35072-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> <20010521121901.A10715@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>
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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. I disagree. I have a production system that's been running over a year without an upgrade. (the uptime would reflect this except for 2 extended power outages) While this sytem has several security holes because of the age of the software, none of these security holes has been a danger to what the system is doing, and therefore necessitated an upgrade. I do agree, however, that if one did come up that threatened to open this machine up, I would disregard the uptime to do the upgrade. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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