Your solution will work, of course, only on a tidy shutdown. For unplanned shutdown (aka - power failure) it will not work.
Ez On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Omer Zak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:00 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Is there a tool that will show me the total uptime (availability) of a > > machine between reboots? > > That is, if the machine was up for 24 hours and then shutdown for an > > hour and then up for 23 hours I want an answer of 47. > > > > I need this for charge-back of departments using cloud computer which > > they sometimes turn off. > > 1. Maybe the cloud computers' provider has the appropriate tool? > In this case, if you don't find the tool yourself, you'll have to tell > us which cloud provider are you working with. > > 2. The 'uptime' command gives the uptime since last reboot. You may > want to add 'uptime >> /var/log/my_uptimes_log.txt' to the shutdown > script, and rotate & process, using a custom Perl script, > the /var/log/my_uptime_log.txt file each month to total the uptime in > that month. > > --- Omer > > > -- > MCSE - acronym for Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert. (Unknown) > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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