From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 16:41:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11F21065688 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:41:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mihai.dontu@gmail.com) Received: from mail.bitdefender.com (mail.bitdefender.com [91.199.104.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2E48FC24 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mihai.dontu@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 8679 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Oct 2008 19:41:40 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.14.115?) (10.10.14.115) by mail.bitdefender.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 8 Oct 2008 19:41:39 +0300 From: Mihai =?utf-8?q?Don=C8=9Bu?= Organization: Home To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:41:39 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20081008162153.GA80866@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081008162153.GA80866@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810081941.39649.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender qmail 3.0.0 on mail.bitdefender.com, sigver: 7.21194 X-BitDefender-Spam: No (0) X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: v1, build 2.6.20.55400, bayes score: 500(0), pbayes score: 0(0), neunet score: 0(0), flags: [VALID_REPLY], total: 0 Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , Chad Marshall Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:41:45 -0000 On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: > > Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the > > past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 > > years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have much > > reach but wanted to share with you since your community has made this > > possible. Please indicate where I could post this to have a bit more > > reach or if you'd like to put a link to my blog, I'd be more than happy > > to provide that. > > I don't want to rain on your parade, but uptime ultimately means squat. > I can install FreeBSD on a box under my desk at home, on a UPS, and > leave it powered on for the next 30 years -- it tells people absolutely > nothing about the reliability of the OS, or what kind of stress it's > undergone during that time. > > Additionally, long uptimes also reflect directly on sysadmins: I take it > to mean "the administrator is very lazy". There are security holes > (kernel or userland/library-level) which are exploitable on boxes which > have been up for that kind of time. I'm also making the assumption that > said boxes have Internet connectivity, hence my point. > > Food for thought. :-) Or to put it mildly and not alienate Chad :), what was the box used for and, if it had Internet connectivity, how were the potential security issues handled within the last two years? A Guy Ritchie kind of story will do just fine. :) -- Mihai Donțu unices.bitdefender.com