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Re: Debian uptime 497 days



On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:50:16 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote:

> Why?  Your uptime is the amount of time your machine has been running,
> not the output of the uptime command.  Just because you overflow a
> 32-bit number with it, it doesn't mean your machine is any less stable.

BTW, wouldn't this wraparound make an excellent opportunity for
introducing a few security patches to the kernel? ;-)

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