On Thu 28 Apr 05 12:37, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > if I want to do a uptime-record I have always the possiblity to shut > down daemons (when needed) and start them again, without rebooting > the system! That is very nice! I had many days and weeks running my > nicely freebsd-server. BUT every time I updated the patchlevel (in > example 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14) I had to reboot my > system. But then the counter of uptime is starting at zero again :-( > > Question: Is there a possiblity to run the system inclusive patching > it, without rebooting? Goal is to run a system maybe longer than a > year!!!
As others have said, no, and it's not really important, though FWIW, my uptime is always as long as my machines run without me rebooting them, meaning they'll stay up until I say otherwise ;) They never go down on their own. I have a laptop running close to a month now, and the only reason it's not longer is because I wanted to update to 5.4-PR. But ... rebooting in order to update for security fixes is not a bad thing. An long-unpatched FreeBSD install on a DMZ server makes me a bit more edgy than knowing the uptime will reset to zero when it's rebooted after updating. - jt _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
