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From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: Norbert van Nobelen <Norbert@hipersonik.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] 1500 days uptime.
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:35:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511242235.23724.nick@linicks.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511242332.13556.Norbert@hipersonik.com>

On Thursday 24 November 2005 22:32, Norbert van Nobelen wrote:
> great uptime. I have 3 readhat boxes who are now more than 1 year up, but
> bizar enough reset the uptime (command uptime) back to zero and started
> counting over again.

Hi Norbert,

Yes, uptime 'wraps' at about 493 days or something.

use:

last -xf /var/run/utmp runlevel

to get last change to run level (run level at boot, presumably).  This was 
posted on LKML ages ago where I learnt to use it to get true 'uptime'.

Nick
-- 
"Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it."
-Chinese Proverb
My quake2 project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quake2plus/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-24 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-24 21:47 [OT] 1500 days uptime Nick Warne
     [not found] ` <200511242332.13556.Norbert@hipersonik.com>
2005-11-24 22:35   ` Nick Warne [this message]
     [not found]     ` <438641F8.4030709@st-andrews.ac.uk>
2005-11-24 22:58       ` Nick Warne
2005-11-24 23:05         ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-11-25 10:09         ` Tim Schmielau
2005-11-25  2:04 ` J. Scott Kasten
2005-11-28 22:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-29  0:31   ` Wakko Warner
2005-11-29 22:26     ` Nick Warne
2005-11-29 23:02       ` Wakko Warner
2005-11-29 22:48         ` Nick Warne
2005-11-30  1:16           ` Wakko Warner
2005-11-29 23:08       ` jdow
2005-11-30  5:31         ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-02  2:50         ` Bill Davidsen

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