From: James <james@piku.org.uk>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: utmp rollover at 496 days?
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 20:33:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020509193351.GL7173@piku.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020509105827.00b139e0@mustang>
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:09:05AM -0700, Scott Taylor wrote:
| At 10:53 AM 09/05/2002, you wrote:
|
| >I have two machines which have not been rebooted sind Dec 2000.
|
| Way to go.
Indeed! And I thought 200 days was good :)
| >At day 497, on both machines, the uptime command began anew at day 0.
|
| Don't you think it's time for a good cleaning and maybe replace a hard
| drive or two by now?
Nah, if it still works, leave it be. Although it has rolled over, so it
doesn't look as "eleet" when you type "uptime" any more...
| >Anybody know what's up with that?
|
| Guessing Linus didn't figure you would run it so long, with out some kind
| of maintenance, so using a very short integer to count days would save
| space in the kernel. I've only seen this question asked about 3 times, and
| once was for an SCO UNIX (maybe XENIX) that would crash on day 498.
There's another way to track uptime now. It requires a very technical
tool known as a "black marker". Every time the counter rolls, make a
mark on the computer's casing :-)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-09 17:53 utmp rollover at 496 days? jim roy
2002-05-09 18:09 ` Scott Taylor
2002-05-09 19:33 ` James [this message]
2002-05-09 18:15 ` Joseph Bueno
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