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> >I do have a number of servers which have lost count of their
> >uptime days (which from memory was a wrap at 248 or something
> >days).
>
> I thought that was fixed with the 5.0.5 release. I had the same
> problem - but ISTR that I had seen the uptime past the 248 day
> [that was the lbolt problem as I recall] but when I looked at it
> at about 15 months I had not uptimes listed. It finally went down
> a month or so later when the power company was out longer than the
> UPS could handle it in an overnight situtation.

I thought that was fixed also, but *shrug* two boxes showing it. They are
the only two OSR505+RS505A boxes that show it however. Haven't had the
time/opportunity to figure out what's different about 'em.

Known my luck, the utmp/xutmp are just broken causing those details not to
be there any longer.

>
> >some high ranking Linux boxes:
>
> > 3:04pm up 423 days, 13:34, 4 users, load average: 0.37, 0.34, 0.29
> > 4:17pm up 467 days, 3:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > 2:48pm up 493 days, 6:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
>
> >They just keep going.. 'net gateway's and mail/web servers.
>
> I finally reinstalled the OS in a mail server and a web server
> after about 700 days of uptime - as I needed to finally upgrade the
> OS. FreeBSD on those.

nice.. I have to live with managers who think "A quick reboot will fix
it!" is a good diagnostic approach.

bkx