From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 19:11:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDFF37B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 19:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9EB106ACBC; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:41:13 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:41:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chuck Rouillard Cc: Kent Stewart , Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uptime limits Message-ID: <20010522114113.N30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010522102726.J30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:10:25PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Monday, 21 May 2001 at 19:10:25 -0700, Chuck Rouillard wrote: > 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 A cursory view of their site would not find this URL. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message