From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 12:19:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA16571 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from cold.org (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA16566 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by cold.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id NAA05756; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:19:30 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:19:30 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: David Greenman cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'uptime' message in ftp motd at ftp.cdrom.com? In-Reply-To: <199702271923.LAA05311@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >Would it be possible to have the ftp motd printed when you anonymously ftp > >to ftp.cdrom.com include the output of 'uptime'? Its nice to have to showoff > >to others :b > > No. Considering the various reliability problems that we've been having > recently (disk drive failures, etc), it's not something that I'd want to > advertise in any case. > Even when the machine is working fine, I usually reboot it after 7-14 days > or so to clear out any junk that might be left around (cron jobs that went > wild, stuck ftpd's, etc), so the uptime never gets very high. Well, there is still the load averages.. seeing 1024 ftp connections with a load of x.x x.x x.x x.x etc would be nice. *shrug* Just a thought :b