Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:41:39 +0300 From: Mihai =?utf-8?q?Don=C8=9Bu?= <mihai.dontu@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Chad Marshall <cmarshall@ahm-inc.com> Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! Message-ID: <200810081941.39649.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081008162153.GA80866@icarus.home.lan> References: <DAC3662D-4B24-4986-87C3-7113A070A575@ahm-inc.com> <20081008162153.GA80866@icarus.home.lan>
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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
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