From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 27 05:34:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0821D106566B for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:34:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863E08FC14 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:34:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so4402790bwz.43 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 22:34:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+0hwktQk37MDYsJ9Z10vuVCfjMrzYjsa3W96aOqkxRE=; b=cNK/d10zHSVvedeBlPaIb0ROx7QKMfS03E13gWgzI6Hnoz1Sv7I0F9YFxNN6GMlnfB 7nUuer3/7YivuT4mLCTViQ1atVWnm+7ktaL8Mn8+ZoguCMZMUPctCrkK55QuqWrl2A5O jigd/Lrn55+M6b5udq1MnYevZ2ly0OxX4xq1w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Y2EMYxAKW4KKZepSg+RzXi4rk4H2n3//q5Fg8oniTD/oSYW7c6v+/FaeGchP5I6KlK 1YeeqdU6KdgUR12BiHvE9BfGvqfQibv7/HvI6LhGeclico9r60l24vulkK6ofKDZGM/g QHlHgsnrHk0B7k/riGR2l8M7DuZ9ZgYhWXjNc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.119.71 with SMTP id y7mr8909139bkq.24.1243402450438; Tue, 26 May 2009 22:34:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090527052335.7a71bfc6.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4A1CB002.9070904@ibctech.ca> <20090527052335.7a71bfc6.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:34:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310905262234s35857487xbf631bea45a018e@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve Bertrand , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions -" Subject: Re: Another uptime story X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:34:12 -0000 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon 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