From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 01:48:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF4016A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:48:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CB043F3F for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB39lhn7089661; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:47:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3FCDB13A.90006@401.cx> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:47:38 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: twig les References: <20031202214020.92210.qmail@web60410.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031202214020.92210.qmail@web60410.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uptime 4.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:48:02 -0000 twig les wrote: > I have to ask... > What about patching? My boxes are stripped down but eventually > need a patch and subsequent reboot. That said I do have one 4.6 > box at 267 (firewalled, very protected network). > > --- Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: >>I've seen 650+ days on a FreeBSD 4.4-REL. Then someone was >>moving some >>UPS's around and managed to unplugg *both* powersupplies at >>the same >>time. Redundancy doesnt help if the admins are idiots. >> >>I do know of a P90 running OpenBSD that is closing in on 900 >>days, but I >>guess that belongs on another mailinglist. >> >>-- >>R These boxes are just bridges without a IP address of their own. They are impossible to access other then via local console, so there is no need to patch them other then for functionality. The boxes I admin that are reachable via ip rarely sees more then ~50 days of uptime. -- R