Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions -" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Another uptime story Message-ID: <d356c5630905270702q31e06a0j31b48f138ed9b3b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0905270645i500318efn9e71cff1ea58faf5@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A1CB002.9070904@ibctech.ca> <20090527052335.7a71bfc6.freebsd@edvax.de> <4ad871310905262234s35857487xbf631bea45a018e@mail.gmail.com> <b79ecaef0905270645i500318efn9e71cff1ea58faf5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/5/27 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@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: > > [chris@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 > [chris@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
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