RE: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-04 Thread Aaron Burke
Don't think (pretty darn sure actually) that FreeBSD can do this ... howver - there is a project for Linux that has this capability. Check out the Two Kernel Monte at http://www.scyld.com/products/beowulf/software/monte.html quoeted from

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-04 Thread David Magda
Dave Uhring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes at something like 492 days. There was a thread on comp.unix.solaris with people reporting uptimes greater than 492 days. Some with three years uptime (1000 days). There was a bug in

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-04 Thread David Magda
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is just a list of potentially vulnerable

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-04 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:16 AM 1.4.2003 -0500, David Magda wrote: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me,

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-04 Thread David Magda
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:20:23AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: Seems like a lot of trouble just to maintain bragging rights about uptime, only to have a hobbled system that is not really up to date. That's not quite up IMHO. [...] For some people these things are important. I have no problem

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-04 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:20:23AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: Seems like a lot of trouble just to maintain bragging rights about uptime, only to have a hobbled system that is not really up to date. That's not quite up IMHO. [...] For some people these things are important. I have no

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-02 17:41, J. Scott Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is impressive. I'm curious if they stayed at a particular version or if they update as new versions are available? I thought I read somewhere that FreeBSD could load a new kernel without rebooting? Nope. To Unsubscribe:

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:11PM -0600, Dave Uhring said: You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes at something like 492 days. from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos -- Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Whelan
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:05:05 -0800 (PST) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 26 www.cravath.com 102 ok892 939 940 Solaris 8 Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 That's certainly more than 492 days... so even if they do reboot, netcraft is ignoring it or accomodating it seems

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 17:17 US/Pacific, Mark wrote: What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is just a

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Marcus Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:02 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability I like to point people in the direction of: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Jukka Simila
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 02:17, Mark wrote: What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is just a list of potentially

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Mike Hogsett
I haven't seen FBSD 4.7 system with uptime 1000 days, for quite obvious reasons.. Should I recommend everyone to install FBSD 2.2.8 since it has good uptime records? :) Sorry to step into the middle of a thread here, but to me it says that FreeBSD has had, and likely continues to have, a

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dimitry Andric wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-01-03 at 02:29:49 Chris Doherty wrote: Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days wacky. how/why is this the case?

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is just a list of potentially vulnerable

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Mike Jeays
Dimitry Andric wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-01-03 at 02:29:49 Chris Doherty wrote: Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days wacky. how/why is this the case? 2^32/100/24/60/60 ~= 497.1

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Marcus Reid
I like to point people in the direction of: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html The list is dominated by FreeBSD machines with uptimes of longer than 1000 days. Go FreeBSD. Marcus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Dave Uhring
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:02 pm, Marcus Reid wrote: I like to point people in the direction of: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html The list is dominated by FreeBSD machines with uptimes of longer than 1000 days. Go FreeBSD. You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 02 January 2003 04:02 pm, Marcus Reid wrote: I like to point people in the direction of: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html The list is dominated by FreeBSD machines with uptimes of longer than 1000 days. Better news is that it can tell my system is running

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread J. Scott Edwards
That is impressive. I'm curious if they stayed at a particular version or if they update as new versions are available? I thought I read somewhere that FreeBSD could load a new kernel without rebooting? -Scott On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marcus Reid wrote: I like to point people in the direction

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Chris Doherty
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:11PM -0600, Dave Uhring said: You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes at something like 492 days. from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos -- Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Dimitry Andric
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-01-03 at 02:29:49 Chris Doherty wrote: Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days wacky. how/why is this the case? 2^32/100/24/60/60 ~= 497.1 Cheers, - -- Dimitry Andric [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-17 Thread Erwan Breton
Only one Url http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html Bye To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-17 Thread ay
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hey, one of my acquaintences is running a 2.2.8-STABLE box which had 1048 days of uptime as of 32 days ago. I bet it's still up... :) Is it ok to still run this security hole called 2.2.* ? :) -- AY7-UANIC || AY15-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-16 Thread Romain Kang
Hey, one of my acquaintences is running a 2.2.8-STABLE box which had 1048 days of uptime as of 32 days ago. I bet it's still up... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-16 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message - From: Romain Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:22:22 -0800 To: Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability Hey, one of my acquaintences is running a 2.2.8-STABLE box which had 1048 days of uptime as of 32 days ago. I bet it's still

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:18:45AM -0600, Franklin Pierce wrote: - Original Message - From: Romain Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:22:22 -0800 To: Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability Hey, one of my acquaintences is running a 2.2.8-STABLE

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-16 Thread Duncan Anker
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:31, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:18:45AM -0600, Franklin Pierce wrote: - Original Message - From: Romain Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:22:22 -0800 To: Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
I have a used Turing machine, if anyone is interested. Anyway, this thread is getting a bit away from the nature of this list, so could it be dropped or moved somewhere else? Thanks Probably :) Shame I had a nice story about a mechanical calculating machine. But, to be pointed, it would