Re: longest uptime

2005-05-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Stevan Tiefert wrote: 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 exa

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-29 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:49:33AM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Joshua Tinnin writes: > > > 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. > > Is FreeBSD so insecure that it must

RE: longest uptime

2005-04-29 Thread freebsd_daemon
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Morland >Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 5:20 AM >To: Stevan Tiefert >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: longest uptime > >On 4/28/05, Stevan Tiefer

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-29 Thread Ed Stover
Hi all, On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 22:26 +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hi Stevan, > > > 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!!! > > Short answer: no. > > Long answer: don't think like that. U

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thu 28 Apr 05 19:49, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Tinnin writes: > > 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. > > Is FreeBSD so insecure that it must

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-28 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Joshua Tinnin writes: > 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. Is FreeBSD so insecure that it must be patched every few days? I hardly ever see FreeBSD security issues on Bugtraq

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
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 > nicel

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-28 Thread Chad Morland
On 4/28/05, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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!!! > For educational purposes only: http://www.jwsdot.com/tuptune/ -CM ___

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-28 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Stevan, > 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!!! Short answer: no. Long answer: don't think like that. Uptime is not important. It is not a pissing contest. Bye... Nico __