Re: 2.4.x kernel uptime counter problem

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>> Or use some dedicated programs, IIRC there is a "uprecords" program
>> (http://podgorny.cz/moin/Uptimed). Does require no reboot and should work
>> right away.
>
> I never understood uptime anyway, the boot time, to the second, is available in
> /proc/stat (btime), and it isn't that hard to turn it into whatever format you
> find human readable. I have a perl script which presents uptime as fractional
> days, days, hours, min, sec, and/or boot time. Took me about two minutes to
> write.

uptime or uptimed/uprecords? (That's two different things.)
The "uptime" commands is the same as "w | head -n1" (which reads 
/proc/uptime) and therefore suffers from jiffies wrap.



Jan Engelhardt
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