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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:07:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Uptime of a system
Message-ID:  <20020710160626.S28454-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020710205526.GA455@HAL9000.wox.org>

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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, David Schultz wrote:

> Thus spake Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>:
> > > > hub# uptime
> > > >  8:09PM  up 5790 days,  1:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > > Now just run an HTTP server.  Netcraft will hate you. ;-)
> > Netcraft doesn't run "uptime" on his machine... Userland hacks don't
> > count.
>
> Right... the real hack would be to futz with the TCP timestamp
> counter.  But it's a stupid one-liner; you're not supposed to
> argue its technical merits!  :P

If you want to be really funny, jump the value every day at midnight by 24
hours or so.  Then when netcraft graphs it over time, it will look really
funny. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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