Another uptime story

Steve Bertrand steve at ibctech.ca
Wed May 27 13:56:30 UTC 2009


Chris Rees wrote:
> 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....

Not really a biggie, I've got another test box right behind it ;)

ww9# uptime
 9:09AM  up 501 days, 22:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Due to network restructuring, the test hardware will be coming out...

Steve
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