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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 19:09:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Subject:   RE: Server Uptimes project...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990510190956.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990510201617.asmodai@wxs.nl>

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On 10-May-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> On 10-May-99 John Baldwin wrote:
>> On the soapbox...
>> 
>> A while back someone announced the "Server Uptimes" page at
>> http://uptime.hexon.cx.
> 
> It doesn't do uptime on uptime, correct?

It subtracts the sysctl variable boottime.tv_sec from the current time, so it
is the actual uptime.  If you go offline and come back on it will use the
uptime from your box, not how long you've been online.

> That would make it even better if one would have to take the box offline
> for some hardware maintenance.
> 
> Btw, my box daemon got assigned hostID 666, coincedence? =P

FreeBSD's now in second place I'm happy to report with 57 machines.  NT is in
3rd with 50.  We also have the second highest average uptime behind NetBSD.

> ---
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                asmodai(at)wxs.nl
>         The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project 
> Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
> *BSD: Accept no limitations...

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