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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2001 10:27:26 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
Cc:        Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uptime limits
Message-ID:  <20010522102726.J30256@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B09B4C0.E82D9783@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:37:20PM -0700
References:  <Pine.A41.4.10.10105211407060.35072-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> <20010522091520.C30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B09B4C0.E82D9783@urx.com>

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On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 17:37:20 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 14:08:32 +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have heard hmm actually read at www.netcraft.com that FreeBSD doesnt
>>> show uptimes longer than 497 days and the uptime information would come
>>> back to 0 (especially in recent releases)
>>> is this true or? isnt that a shame on us if we cant prove our uptimes? =)
>>
>> I'd be interested to see where you read that.  This is a limitation of
>> Linux kernels up to and including 2.2.x.  It doesn't apply to Linux
>> 2.4, and it never applied to FreeBSD.
>
> It is in the center area of their FAQ page. See
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html

Thanks.  I've sent them a correction.

Greg
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