From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 17 17:10:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9214A37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1362D43E75 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17rSQH-0006G5-00; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:10:29 -0700 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:10:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Stolen BSD code found in Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <11940544419.20020918014947@dds.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Alex wrote: > It would be healty for a server if it rebooted once a month of every > other month, due to security reasons. (install of new OS version cq > security updates) Usually new OS versions aren't available every month. And just because a new version is officially released doesn't mean that you need to update to it then. Also security updates don't all deal with kernel. And some kernel security issues may be for some kernel code/features that aren't even used. Maybe every five or six months to one year is closer (and broad) estimate for needed reboots. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message