Maximum uptime 497 days?

Matt Douhan matt at fruitsalad.org
Mon Jun 28 08:06:17 PDT 2004


On Monday 28 June 2004 16.03, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Rob <stopspam at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>  > By accident I happen to come across this remarkable limit of
>  > uptime registration for FreeBSD systems. After 497 days, the
>  > timer jumps to zero again.
>  >
>  > 497 days is less than a 1.5 years !
>
> I'd be very embarrassed to have machines with that a high
> uptime -- It means that they haven't been updated for that
> a long time and are probably full of security holes.  ;-)
>

why ?

they may not be public machines at all and be isolated to an environment where 
security is not the primary concern

rgds

Matt


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