Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:13:20 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes... Message-ID: <41E1E4C0.1060503@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <p06200704be07936f649b@[128.113.24.47]> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050109162444.64144B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <p06200702be0769f3ab7c@[128.113.24.47]> <p06200704be07936f649b@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 7:27 PM -0500 1/9/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> >> My main "production-system" use of FreeBSD is for a chat server, >> which needs to be up all the time or everyone stops "chatting" and >> starts yelling at me. The longest uptimes I've had so far are: >> >> * 373 days 10 hours (a 6-hour long power outage) >> * 599 days 14 hours (a UPS melt-down failure) >> * 497 days 18 hours (hard disk failure) > > > I should note that the above uptimes were running 4.x systems (and > the first one *might* even be a 3.x system). While I had forgotten > that subject was talking about "FreeBSD 5.3", I obviously have not > been running 5.3 for the past four years! > Long uptimes = unsecured+unpatched boxes. Long uptimes? No thanks. -- Best regards, Chris Magellan was the first strait man.
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