From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265488AbUBAWhb (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:37:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265493AbUBAWha (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:37:30 -0500 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([213.79.33.168]:34182 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265488AbUBAWh3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:37:29 -0500 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:36:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paul@fogarty.jakma.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Markus_H=E4stbacka?= cc: Christian Borntraeger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Uptime counter In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-NSA: arafat al aqsar jihad musharef jet-A1 avgas ammonium qran inshallah allah al-akbar martyr iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas british airways washington MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Markus Hästbacka wrote: > I know, but running a 2.0.x machine with that kind of uptime isn't > really that bad, thought if the machine has alot of accounts it > wouldn't be that great idea. 2.0? 2.2 has been out more than long enough for boxes running such kernels to have rolled over several times already. security: if the box concerned is heavily firewalled and partitioned away from rest of internet, whats the problem? :) > But anyway, thanks for the information! > > Markus regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A warning: do not ever send email to spam@dishone.st Fortune: "Probably the best operating system in the world is the [operating system] made for the PDP-11 by Bell Laboratories." - Ted Nelson, October 1977