Another uptime story

[Chris Rees]

2009/5/27 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds
>> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the
>> actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for,
>> let's call it accumulated uptime. :-)
>>
>
> I like that idea, actually.. Not for faking cumulative uptime.  It'd
> be kinda nice knowing how long a particular machine has been 'alive'
> without looking through service tag records.
>
> --
> Glen Barber

How about:

[chris at amnesiac]~% ls -l /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  324 Apr 15  2008 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
[chris at amnesiac]~%

I think I'd cry if I were to lose 553 days of uptime....

Chris


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