At 05:33 PM 2/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I couldn't resist...
>
>/home/rmadison$ uptime
>  5:23pm  up 155 days,  1:14,  27 users,  load average: 0.34, 0.38, 0.40
>/home/rmadison$
>Seriously though, I agree 100% with Gustav. I have administered some older
>SunOS boxes that had been up so long, that they forgot how long they had
>been up. When I did an uptime, the Number of days field was just blank. 

Why didn't you just check /proc/uptime?

[root@garnet /root]# cat /proc/uptime 
4346568.00 4104071.32

That's UNIX time for those who don't know. (number of seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1, 
1970)

[root@garnet /root]# uptime
  7:57pm  up 50 days,  7:20, 32 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


>I
>asked the previous SA, and he said that in all the time he had been watching
>out for it, it had not been rebooted, and that was a couple years. 

----------------------------------------------------
Jonathan Wilson
System Administrator

Cedar Creek Software
http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

Central Texas IT
http://www.centraltexasit.com



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