On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across > an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The > only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I > thought to myself, "I bet I could run an OpenBSD box for that amount of time > or longer without getting hacked and without doing much to it." Just > wondering what's the longest OpenBSD uptime some folks on misc have seen? > > Thanks > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Longest-Uptime--tp20219082p20219082.html > Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
Hmm, yeah sure I'll bite. The longest I've seen that I still have a record of (screen shot of the uptime command) was a machine I installed as a firewall for a very important mail server. Please note, I was not in charge of maintaining it, otherwise it would not have reached this uptime, but it was over two years. As far as I could tell (I got onto the box once in a blue moon) it was not hacked, but seeing as all it did was run pf, and only allowed ssh from 2 IP addresses (both I controlled, and were firewalled themselves), that doesn't seem extraordinary. I will type out the uptime/uname command as in the picture: $ uptime 10:54AM up 745 days, 22:36, 0 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.08 $ uname -a OpenBSD bassfishing 3.1 GENERIC#0 i386 $ As far as uptimes I don't have records of, a friend of mine has worked on old systems that weren't rebooted because they were afraid it would not boot back up again. One of them pre-internet, I believe it did some financial stuff. However, no proof there. -- Jason
