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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:19:30 -0700 (MST)
From:      Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'uptime' message in ftp motd at ftp.cdrom.com? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970227131832.5752A-100000@cold.org>
In-Reply-To: <199702271923.LAA05311@root.com>

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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >Would it be possible to have the ftp motd printed when you anonymously ftp
> >to ftp.cdrom.com include the output of 'uptime'?  Its nice to have to showoff
> >to others :b
> 
>    No. Considering the various reliability problems that we've been having
> recently (disk drive failures, etc), it's not something that I'd want to
> advertise in any case.
>    Even when the machine is working fine, I usually reboot it after 7-14 days
> or so to clear out any junk that might be left around (cron jobs that went
> wild, stuck ftpd's, etc), so the uptime never gets very high.

Well, there is still the load averages.. seeing 1024 ftp connections with
a load of x.x x.x x.x x.x etc would be nice.  *shrug* Just a thought :b





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