Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes...

[Chris]

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.

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Best regards,
Chris

Magellan was the first strait man.