On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> At 05:33 PM 2/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >I couldn't resist...
> >
> >/home/rmadison$ uptime
> > 5:23pm up 155 days, 1:14, 27 users, load average: 0.34, 0.38, 0.40
> >/home/rmadison$
> >Seriously though, I agree 100% with Gustav. I have administered some older
> >SunOS boxes that had been up so long, that they forgot how long they had
> >been up. When I did an uptime, the Number of days field was just blank.
>
> Why didn't you just check /proc/uptime?
>
> [root@garnet /root]# cat /proc/uptime
> 4346568.00 4104071.32
>
> That's UNIX time for those who don't know. (number of seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1,
>1970)
>
> [root@garnet /root]# uptime
> 7:57pm up 50 days, 7:20, 32 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Because SunOS (4.x, aka Solaris 1.x) didn't have a /proc filesystem and
besides /proc/uptime is a linuxism. Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x) supports the
/proc filesystem but does not have /proc/uptime.
-- John
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