On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:54 AM, new_guy wrote:

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> I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I  
> ran across
> an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been  
> hacked. The
> only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I
> thought to myself, "I bet I could run an OpenBSD box for that  
> amount of time
> or longer without getting hacked and without doing much to it." Just
> wondering what's the longest OpenBSD uptime some folks on misc have  
> seen?

When I built a NAT gateway for home some five years ago (On OpenBSD  
3.4), it could go on for more than 580 days without rebooting (though  
it didn't act as a public mail server), after which point I had a  
power outage and decided anyway to apply updates more diligently  
given the hassle it is to upgrade / reinstall a box all the way to  
the latest version when you let more than one version pass. :)
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