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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
To:        Neil Long <neil.long@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question of longevity
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909012047400.354-100000@guru.phone.net>
In-Reply-To: <990826161120.ZM4951@ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk>

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On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Neil Long wrote:
:->I have a FreeBSD+drawbridge host which just runs and runs and has no
:->problems. It has been up now for 444 days
:->(2.2.6-RELEASE DRAWBRIDGE-3.0b2)
:->and I am planning to upgrade it RSN!
:->
:->Just wondered if FreeBSD ever suffered the 'uptime' problems that the
:->L-Word did/does (498 day uptime can cause panics in some Linux
:->kernels).

I understand there was a bug in one of the early BSD distributions,
such that the day field didn't format properly if it was more than
three digits wide. Looks like it's fixed in this version, though.

	<mike




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