Year 2038 time set problem

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 09:35 PM, Alex Arvelaez wrote:
>> If you don't need high availability, what's the problem with the occasional reboot?
>
> I have a life, and its a chore to reboot the 3 boxes after every
> upgrade.  It runs my phones, my TV, my house security, and my mail and
> webserver and booting them all is a PIA.  If it is raining security
> holes with every kernel upgrade, that is a big problem, and that is
> before all these appliances.
>
> Advice?  Who am I to give advice?  On the face of it, I would say they
> need to harden the kernel base release.  But I am not qualified to give
> anyone advice.  If a kernel can't be reasonably secure in a 2 year
> period, as a consumer I can only be unhappy about it and a bit dismayed.
>  But no one owes me anything.

Now might be a good time to bring up some of Robert Morris Sr' advice:
turn it off and unplug it .

Otherwise, you have to live with the risk and inconveniences.

Jeff