From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 02:13:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65C016A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:13:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A14A43D2F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:13:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C6B610E; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:13:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 41930-08; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:13:20 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E23260E7; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:13:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41E1E4C0.1060503@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:13:20 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:13:23 -0000 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 7:27 PM -0500 1/9/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> >> My main "production-system" use of FreeBSD is for a chat server, >> which needs to be up all the time or everyone stops "chatting" and >> starts yelling at me. The longest uptimes I've had so far are: >> >> * 373 days 10 hours (a 6-hour long power outage) >> * 599 days 14 hours (a UPS melt-down failure) >> * 497 days 18 hours (hard disk failure) > > > I should note that the above uptimes were running 4.x systems (and > the first one *might* even be a 3.x system). While I had forgotten > that subject was talking about "FreeBSD 5.3", I obviously have not > been running 5.3 for the past four years! > Long uptimes = unsecured+unpatched boxes. Long uptimes? No thanks. -- Best regards, Chris Magellan was the first strait man.