From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 19: 8:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (tan7.ncr.com [192.127.94.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A445237B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 19:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4M2AP017052; Mon, 21 May 2001 19:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:10:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard To: Greg Lehey Cc: Kent Stewart , Evren Yurtesen , Subject: Re: uptime limits In-Reply-To: <20010522102726.J30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 22 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 17:37:20 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >> On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 14:08:32 +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> 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) > >>> is this true or? isnt that a shame on us if we cant prove our uptimes? =) > >> > >> I'd be interested to see where you read that. This is a limitation of > >> Linux kernels up to and including 2.2.x. It doesn't apply to Linux > >> 2.4, and it never applied to FreeBSD. > > > > It is in the center area of their FAQ page. See > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html > > Thanks. I've sent them a correction. A cursory view of their own site should suffice: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message