From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 14:53:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 14:53:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F9CC37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 40316 invoked by uid 100); 14 Dec 2000 22:53:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14905.20342.21687.243168@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:53:42 -0600 (CST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netcraft In-Reply-To: <20247913@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vandenhouten Jeremy-JVANDEN1 types: > From Netcraft: > > Operating systems we can usually work out uptimes for are: > > FreeBSD [but not the default configuration in versions 3 and later] > > Additionally, NT4 uptimes cycle back to zero after 49.7 days, and > give timestamps exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at this > precise point, while HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of > FreeBSD also cycle back to zero after 497 days. > > Has anyone been looking into these issues, or know how to solve > the "default configuration problem?" I don't think so; but if you tell us how you get uptimes, we might be able to provide more information. The "497 day" cycle strikes me as odd. I'm sure I've seen people claiming longer uptimes than that... http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message