Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:26:28 +0000 From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> To: Allen Landsidel <alandsidel@venon.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup confusion Message-ID: <29447.982923988@thrush.ravenbrook.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Allen Landsidel <alandsidel@venon.com> of "Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:41:51 EST." <4.3.2.7.2.20010222115520.00c661a8@64.7.7.83>
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At 2001-02-22 17:41:51+0000, Allen Landsidel writes: > I guess we can all be grateful that a great number of people apparently > don't bother updating their systems. ;) Yes, and so can they. Many (most?) users are very happy with the FreeBSD they are running, in a headless box stuffed behind a desk somewhere, that has stayed up continuously for the last year or two and never needs more than cursory maintenance. Our main server is running 3.4-RELEASE, and I have two boxes at 2.2.8-RELEASE, upgraded from 2.2.2 a couple of years ago because I had never done an upgrade and wanted to see what the process was like. I have a friend who is still running 2.0.5 (I think), and is still happy with it. It's easy to forget, here in the dizzy heights of -STABLE and -CURRENT, that many, many machines _never_ have an OS upgrade. I would guess that it's the great majority. > >I bet 99% of all users leave their crontab entries for the periodic > >scripts unchanged. So regardless of their time zone, they are running > >a 1 minute after some given hour (0301 in their local time zone). > >That's 24 possible starting times each day, instead of 1440. Many of > >the mirrors which are never saturated currently would become saturated > >at least several times a day under that scheme. You could have a script which adds a randomly-timed line to /etc/crontab. Something involving `jot -r 1 0 59` and `jot -r 1 0 23`. :-) Nick B -- FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE: up 10 days, 20:58 last reboot Mon Feb 12 13:28 (upgraded to FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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