On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees <utis...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/27 Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon <free...@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: > > [ch...@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 > [ch...@amnesiac]~% > > I think I'd cry if I were to lose 553 days of uptime.... > > Chris > You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop flag to a database when the system starts and stops. This wouldn't account for improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a "stop" date/time was missing. If you also documented the installation date/time of various components, you could also track their lives separately. Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
