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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