Re: [ossig] 2 Malaysian organisations among 50 best uptimes

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>]

On 21 Jul 2003, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> applications that have a flaw one way or another and are easily hosted
> on FreeBSD. Dinesh wrote about 'kernel', not userland / ports. RedHat
> looks at the whole distro. End of 'defending' RedHat.

my message was in response to reboots for security fixes. the point i was
making is that freebsd has not had a kernel related vulnerability in quite
a long while. only a kernel related vulnerability (including the tcpip
stack) would necessitate a reboot. the freebsd advisories _include_
vulnerability announcements for other packaged software within the ports
collection including ssh, ssl, sendmail and the usual suspects. however, a
bug fix for any of these would only require a daemon restart, not a reboot
of the server. hence, freebsd's excellent uptime statistics.

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh@alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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