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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:40:56 -0700
From:      Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>
To:        "Remington L." <cableboy@charter.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sysctl uptime
Message-ID:  <20030630044056.GB18417@webserver.get-linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <auto-000078205314@remt20.cluster1.charter.net>
References:  <auto-000078205314@remt20.cluster1.charter.net>

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:17:54PM -0700 or thereabouts, Remington L. wrote:
> Is there a sysctl string that can tell me my uptime?

No, but kern.boottime is the boot time of the kernel, so subtract that from
`date +%s` and you have uptime in seconds. Note that sysctl's output for this
field will need some parsing.

I found this out from the source code for `w', btw. Use the Source, Luke!

-- Josh

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