From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 19:59:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7929C37B405 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:59:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F3643EE6 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:59:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h043x8II021814; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:59:07 -0800 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Mark From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <200301030117.H031HZS41668@asarian-host.net> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 17:17 US/Pacific, Mark wrote: > What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, > this is > just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the > necessary > upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, > this is > just a list of potentially vulnerable sites. Yeah, I've always felt the same way. If you're making runtime changes to your systems without testing that they restart properly, you're asking for disaster sooner or later; especially as you stack update upon update. If you're not performing updates at all, you have other issues. What's really significant is the (lowest) number of *unscheduled* restarts; unfortunately, that's not easily posted on a scoreboard. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message