Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes...

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 8:13 PM -0600 1/9/05, Chris wrote:
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>Long uptimes = unsecured+unpatched boxes.
>Long uptimes? No thanks.

If you had read my earlier message, you would see that I take steps
to keep the important components patched, and thus my machine has
been as secure as a freshly-built system.  Long uptimes are just a
nice goal that I try for, so if there was a security issue where I
*had* to reboot to fix it, I certainly would do so.

My strategy works for me because I have spare machines, and I am
constantly paying attention to freebsd changes.  The strategy will
not work as well for people in different situations than mine.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu