On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: > > Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the > > past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 > > years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have much > > reach but wanted to share with you since your community has made this > > possible. Please indicate where I could post this to have a bit more > > reach or if you'd like to put a link to my blog, I'd be more than happy > > to provide that. > > I don't want to rain on your parade, but uptime ultimately means squat. > I can install FreeBSD on a box under my desk at home, on a UPS, and > leave it powered on for the next 30 years -- it tells people absolutely > nothing about the reliability of the OS, or what kind of stress it's > undergone during that time. > > Additionally, long uptimes also reflect directly on sysadmins: I take it > to mean "the administrator is very lazy". There are security holes > (kernel or userland/library-level) which are exploitable on boxes which > have been up for that kind of time. I'm also making the assumption that > said boxes have Internet connectivity, hence my point. > > Food for thought. :-)
Or to put it mildly and not alienate Chad :), what was the box used for and, if it had Internet connectivity, how were the potential security issues handled within the last two years? A Guy Ritchie kind of story will do just fine. :) -- Mihai Donțu unices.bitdefender.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
