From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 15: 4:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DB537B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 15:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A0D7BAE0284; Mon, 21 May 2001 15:04:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0990D7.F4C027FE@urx.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:04:07 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: Rick Hamell , Jason Halbert , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: uptime limits References: <200105211842.f4LIgQ583289@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > Rick rambled, > > > Some... mostly among the NT and Linux crowds thinks it's a big > > deal... (Wow! My NT-Server has been up for 35 days! :) On the same note, > > our company has a reboot schedule setup for 300+ NT-Servers... :) Every 30 > > days if it needs it or not. :) > > I don't think the big deal is that the machine has been up that long, > but rather that there's nothing inherent in the operating system that > *stops* it from staying up that long. > > hawk > > p.s. Can NT *really* stay up 35 days? :) Easily but you have to ignore the critical updates from Microsoft that require a reboot. My Windows 2000 Server had more uptime than my FreeBSD server. Then, they came out with Service Pack 2, which required a reboot. Kent > > -- > Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign > dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail > These opinions will not be those of X and postings > Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message