Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-16 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:00:57 -0500, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: Hard to get unless you have several kilobucks to spend on an online type UPS, though. I actually had one I got surplus, several years back, but the constant inverter buzz got old fast in a home environment. Refurbups.com

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 14 22:56:16 2012 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:51:45 -0500 From: Mark Felder f...@feld.me Cc: Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Uptime [OT] FreeBSD REDACTED 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Bas Smeelen
. Too bad it will be moved to another physical location in a week or two. $ uptime 2:38PM up 2266 days, 20:43, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Disclaimer: http://www.ose.nl/email ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:20:19PM -0600, Steve Bertrand wrote: I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Hmm. My longest uptime

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
, the hardware it's running on is old enough to vote. wry grin It's publicly accessible on the Internet, It's not quite as ridiculous as it looks, the (limited) apps running on it _are_ up-to-date. Uptime is nothing to brag about -- no UPS, combined with 'unreliable' public utility

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/15/2012 08:30, Bernt Hansson wrote: Aha.A pissing contest and it's fridaycount me in... FreeBSD fqdn 4.11-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p20 #0: Mon Aug 28 07:21:42 CEST 2006 user@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HPNETSERVERFW i386

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 15 June 2012 09:49:49 Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 14 22:56:16 2012 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:51:45 -0500 From: Mark Felder f...@feld.me Cc: Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Uptime

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS of the non-enterprise variety can actually make reliability *worse*.

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47:55PM +, David Brodbeck wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS of

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I don't consider the ability to stay up for a few minutes when there's a brief blackout to be the most important function of a good UPS, even though that's kinda the reason the things were invented in the first place.  

Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Mark Felder
In production and survived many area-wide power outages: % uptime 10:34PM up 2021 days, 18:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:20 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 fwiw: %uname -a FreeBSD ..xxx 7.2

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:35 PM, Mark Felder wrote: In production and survived many area-wide power outages: % uptime 10:34PM up 2021 days, 18:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 That's hardcore homie... wow! What does this box survive to do? Steve

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Mark Felder
is quickly aging. The dual power supply has saved it a few times, too. I think there's another server which I believe is close to 2600 days uptime but I'll have to brainstorm and see if I can remember which one it is. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Mark Felder
FreeBSD REDACTED 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 15 16:29:10 CST 2006 root@REDACTED:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/IPFW-POLING-ALTQ i386 Theres no way I'm giving out the organization name or hostname haha. We're slowly moving customers away from this device, but not forcing anyone.

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
. There isn't much load at all, but the hardware is quickly aging. The dual power supply has saved it a few times, too. I think there's another server which I believe is close to 2600 days uptime but I'll have to brainstorm and see if I can remember which one it is. lmao... you must be a sysadmin ;) IPFW

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/5/27 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the actual uptime. I know

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: I like that idea, actually.. Not for faking cumulative uptime.  It'd be kinda nice knowing how long a particular machine has been 'alive' without looking through service tag records. How about: [ch

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Not really a biggie, I've got another test box right behind it ;) ww9# uptime  9:09AM  up 501 days, 22:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Due to network restructuring, the test hardware will be coming out

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/5/27 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Not really a biggie, I've got another test box right behind it ;) ww9# uptime 9:09AM up 501 days, 22:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Due to network restructuring, the test hardware

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/5/27 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
radius# uptime 11:01PM up 553 days, 13:38, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 very good result, but thinking that way is quite a nonsense. you have to shut down, then just shut down! if you want to talk about how well your server works, how stable it is and how good admin are you

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for, let's call it accumulated uptime. :-) if it will add only in case of clean shutdown - it would be good

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Steve, Just out of curiosity, what function did 'radius' serve? RADIUS ;) I didn't think it could be that easy. :) -- Glen Barber ___

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop flag to a database when the system starts and stops. This wouldn't account for improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a stop date/time

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Vogel
On Tue, 26 May 2009 23:14:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca said: S Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, given this uptime in S my relatively hostile environment. *sigh* I'll match your sigh and add some curse-words. One of our fileservers: date: Mon May 18

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com said: A You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop A flag to a database when the system starts and stops. This wouldn't A account for improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a stop

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
date: Mon May 18 09:03:09 EDT 2009 uname: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0 uptime: 9:03AM up 732 days, 11:36, 0 users Hardly possible in Poland. i can't imagine 2 years without power failures :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Karl Vogel vogelke+u...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com said: A You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop A flag to a database when the system starts and stops.  This wouldn't

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Tim Judd
I have a script which runs fping on a bunch of servers and writes a timestamp for any host that answers. It's run every minute from cron on our loghost. Another script watches the results and sends me an IM if any of my boxes fails to respond for 3 minutes. I can put up a

Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
...unfortunately, due to re-racking and upgrade requirements, I have to pull the plug. There is nothing hidden or obfuscated in my output, and I am not ashamed of that. Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, given this uptime in my relatively hostile environment. *sigh* I know

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 26 May 2009 23:14:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: ...unfortunately, due to re-racking and upgrade requirements, I have to pull the plug. There is nothing hidden or obfuscated in my output, and I am not ashamed of that. Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for, let's call it accumulated uptime. :-) Nah, uptime is uptime. Uptime was never my intention, it just worked. There have been times

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: [..snip..] Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, [..snip..] radius# uptime 1:19AM up 553 days, 15:56, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 :( radius# halt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Glen Barber
Steve, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: [..snip..] Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, [..snip..] radius# uptime  1:19AM  up 553 days, 15:56, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 :( radius# halt

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for, let's call it accumulated uptime

Re: Uptime logging with (maybe) ppp's log functionality

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Monday 15 December 2008 15:09:31 Polytropon wrote: Hi! I'm going to setup a system with a dial-up modem for sporadic Internet access; a provider that charges per second online time is used. Is there a way ppp (which is used for dialing) can log the online time (or at least the

Uptime logging with (maybe) ppp's log functionality

2008-12-15 Thread Polytropon
Hi! I'm going to setup a system with a dial-up modem for sporadic Internet access; a provider that charges per second online time is used. Is there a way ppp (which is used for dialing) can log the online time (or at least the connection's start and stop time) so the costs can be calculated?

Re: Uptime logging with (maybe) ppp's log functionality

2008-12-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm going to setup a system with a dial-up modem for sporadic Internet access; a provider that charges per second online time is used. Is there a way ppp (which is used for dialing) can log the online time (or at least the connection's start and stop time) so the costs can be calculated?

Re: Uptime logging with (maybe) ppp's log functionality

2008-12-15 Thread Polytropon
Many thanks for your ideas. I think I'll use #2 and have start and stop time recorded in epoch format (because its easy to get the substraction result instead of fiddling around with date's ymdhms parameters). This is because I'm not very familiar with ppp's logs, and maybe they provide the

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-15 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:52 -0400, Mikel King wrote: On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Chad Marshall wrote: No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-15 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:03 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, October 09, 2008 09:34:02 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:07:31AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote:

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-15 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 07:50 -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Here's what I said to the last guy who says my skin is thin, just leave well enough alone and drop it please. Seems your skin is thin as well if you can't handle a little back talk :)

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-15 Thread Da Rock
I love the direction this thread has taken. First, humorous, then it will turn into flames. I bet all my US$:-) Unfortunately that doesn't really offer much value anymore with the recent market downturn- got anything else to

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-10 Thread Bernt Hansson
Zbigniew Szalbot: 2008/10/9 Jon Radel: Dear Mr. Marshall: I'm terribly sorry that our representatives in charge of answering emails have been rude to you. I've just fired the lot of them, particularly as we can't afford to keep then on anymore seeing as how your generous donations are now in

RE: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
was worth a read. It wasn't worth a response, espically escalated to the rediculousness that some have been. Did anyone bother to think that any admin with 2 years uptime on a system probably has some decent coin into the environment (think, UPS power here) and more like as not knows what

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Chad Marshall
Sorry to bother you...You know, you could just leave well enough alone if you don't care. There goes any future donations from me and my organization as this is more than the first untactful email I recieved from this, I'll donate and use other platforms. Please don't send any other

RE: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of matt donovan why is this news or even important? heck most servers are up longer then this. It's neither. But the discussion proved useful as it served to remind me that there are security updates that need to be reviewed periodically, even for machines that are not directly

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:07:31AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Sorry to bother you...You know, you could just leave well enough alone if you don't care. There goes any future donations from me and my organization as this is more than the first untactful email I recieved from this,

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:07:31AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Sorry to bother you...You know, you could just leave well enough alone if you don't care. There goes any future donations from me and my organization as this is more than the first untactful email I recieved from this,

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eitan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: andrew clarke wrote: Is FreeBSD 7.1 2038-proof? ;-) As far as I know the amd64 version is (anyone care to verify/correct?) All 64-bit platforms have 64-bit time_t, so that covers most of the possible problems. Even on 32-bit platforms, the major

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Chad Marshall
Here's what I said to the last guy who says my skin is thin, just leave well enough alone and drop it please. Seems your skin is thin as well if you can't handle a little back talk :) Well, I can always except critism. The problem is that I don't need rude responses for something I thought

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Mikel King
On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Chad Marshall wrote: No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ squirrelmail (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with apache/php/mysql. Also use it as a slave

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, October 09, 2008 09:34:02 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:07:31AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Sorry to bother you...You know, you could just leave well enough alone if you don't care. There goes any future donations from me and my

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
when thanks to this list I have learnt something useful or was given useful advice. And two years ago I knew nothing about Unix or Linux. Thanks to this list I can manage FreeBSD (almost) on my own. :) But the discussion that followed made me realize that uptime is not everything. I also love to see

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread mdh
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Chad Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you should put someone in charge of answering emails who aren't cocky and smug This is a public mailing list. No one is in charge of answering mails to it. When sending to -questions, you are emailing the community of

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Jon Radel
Chad Marshall wrote: Here's what I said to the last guy who says my skin is thin, just leave well enough alone and drop it please. Seems your skin is thin as well if you can't handle a little back talk :) Well, I can always except critism. The problem is that I don't need rude responses

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
2008/10/9 Jon Radel: Dear Mr. Marshall: I'm terribly sorry that our representatives in charge of answering emails have been rude to you. I've just fired the lot of them, particularly as we can't afford to keep then on anymore seeing as how your generous donations are now in jeopardy. How

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/9 Jon Radel: Dear Mr. Marshall: I'm terribly sorry that our representatives in charge of answering emails have been rude to you. I've just fired the lot of them, particularly as we can't afford to keep then

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, 2008/10/9 Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I love the direction this thread has taken. First, humorous, then it will turn into flames. I bet all my US$:-) Well, I do not have much to lose in terms of USD ;) but I cannot really understand why some people are still sort of getting on

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread matt donovan
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2008/10/9 Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I love the direction this thread has taken. First, humorous, then it will turn into flames. I bet all my US$:-) Well, I do not have much to lose in terms of USD

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Chad Marshall wrote: Here's what I said to the last guy who says my skin is thin, just leave well enough alone and drop it please. Seems your skin is thin as well if you can't handle a little back talk :) Well, I can always except critism. The problem is that I don't need rude responses for

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:11:13PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: But the discussion that followed made me realize that uptime is not everything. I also love to see huge uptimes on my servers but if anything this discussion brought it home to me that more than anything I need to take care

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Eitan Adler
Lowell Gilbert wrote: [snip] And in theory it should be possible to change time_t to unsigned, and get another two-thirds of a century out of it... However this would break binary compatibility with anything compiled before the change. -- GNU Key fingerptrint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Chad Marshall
and supportive and found some value in my story. Best Regards, Modulok wrote: uptime 2 years! Congratulations. Long uptimes should be shared, so as to encourage people to consider FreeBSD for long-term stability. Thank you for posting. Through this discussion the lazy administrator topic

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Modulok
uptime 2 years! Congratulations. Long uptimes should be shared, so as to encourage people to consider FreeBSD for long-term stability. Thank you for posting. Through this discussion the lazy administrator topic came up... In regards to that, we must keep in mind, 'stability,' pertains not only

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread mdh
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Eitan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eitan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:41 PM Lowell Gilbert wrote: [snip] And in theory it should be possible to change time_t

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread mdh
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Eitan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eitan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:41 PM Lowell Gilbert wrote: [snip] And in theory it should be possible to change time_t

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:00:38PM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ squirrelmail (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with apache/ php/mysql. Also use

uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Chad Marshall
Hello, 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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Mihai Donțu
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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-08 09:21:53 UTC-0700, Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't want to rain on your parade, but uptime ultimately means squat. Agreed. 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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:54:47 -0500 Chad Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, 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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Eitan Adler
andrew clarke wrote: Is FreeBSD 7.1 2038-proof? ;-) As far as I know the amd64 version is (anyone care to verify/correct?) -- GNU Key fingerptrint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Hello, 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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Duane Hill
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Hello, 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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Pietro Cerutti
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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Da Rock
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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Kurt Buff
Nice, but what does port audit say? On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Chad Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, 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

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Chad Marshall
No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ squirrelmail (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with apache/ php/mysql. Also use it as a slave authoritative nameserver for over 100 zones (one zone

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread matt donovan
why is this news or even important? heck most servers are up longer then this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread reese
Well sometimes you don't need to upgrade and you aren't connected to the internet directly. elephant: {25} uptime 5:54PM up 1756 days, 7:07, 2 users, load averages: 1.04, 1.01, 1.00 elephant 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 This machine is semi-retired now

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Charles Reese
Well sometimes you don't need to upgrade and you aren't connected to the internet directly. elephant: {25} uptime 5:54PM up 1756 days, 7:07, 2 users, load averages: 1.04, 1.01, 1.00 elephant 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-09-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
an email when the server is down and when is up again. With this information you can know the uptime of the web server. I'd have to install Nagios on a different server then, right? I doubt the actual server knows when its ISP's link drops (or just slows down) due to an attack

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-09-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
? You can install nagios and monitor the web server. It will send you an email when the server is down and when is up again. With this information you can know the uptime of the web server. I'd have to install Nagios on a different server then, right? I doubt the actual server knows

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-09-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
of the world)? Maybe make some sort of ping script from a remote server? You can install nagios and monitor the web server. It will send you an email when the server is down and when is up again. With this information you can know the uptime of the web server. I'd have to install

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website on it, is there any way of telling how often it is actually online (to the rest of the world)? Maybe make some sort of ping script from a remote server?

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Redd Vinylene
/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, You can install nagios and monitor the web server. It will send you an email when the server is down and when is up again. With this information you can know the uptime of the web server. I'd

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Andrew D
. With this information you can know the uptime of the web server. I'd have to install Nagios on a different server then, right? I doubt the actual server knows when its ISP's link drops (or just slows down) due to an attack. You can easily get nagios to test the web server sitting on the same machine

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Andrew D
. With this information you can know the uptime of the web server. I'd have to install Nagios on a different server then, right? I doubt the actual server knows when its ISP's link drops (or just slows down) due to an attack. You can easily get nagios to test the web server sitting on the same machine

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
know the uptime of the web server. I'd have to install Nagios on a different server then, right? I doubt the actual server knows when its ISP's link drops (or just slows down) due to an attack. Not necessarily. You can install nagios on your web server and use it to monitor a server

How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-30 Thread Redd Vinylene
Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website on it, is there any way of telling how often it is actually online (to the rest of the world)? Maybe make some sort of ping script from a remote server? --

Re: Netcraft do not display uptime graph, why?

2007-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
? Thx - --On Friday, September 21, 2007 12:36:24 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, My machine is FreeBSD 6.x currently. But Netcraft do not display of my machine's uptime graph. When I used FreeBSD 4.x, actually I could see

Re: Netcraft do not display uptime graph, why?

2007-10-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:19:53 -0300 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That URL states that we 'default to 1000Hz' ... is it lowerable, and what are the ramifications of doing so? My first thought is that 1000Hz is giving us higher

Netcraft do not display uptime graph, why?

2007-09-21 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hi there, My machine is FreeBSD 6.x currently. But Netcraft do not display of my machine's uptime graph. When I used FreeBSD 4.x, actually I could see the uptime graph in Netcraft. What happened? And what can I do to solve the problem? Here is my machine's uname: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ uname -v

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