Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:57:37 -0600 From: Duane Attaway <dattaway@attaway.net> Subject: Re: SAVE A SOUL ...uptime Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211241748420.4763-100000@attaway.net>
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Tony Hammitt wrote:
> On to linux stuff... Uptime contest. Can anyone beat this on a currently
> running, in-use-daily desktop system?
>
> $ w
> 3:20pm up 685 days, 18:41, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I'm not even close, but I'm trying to figure out why my uptime counter
reset after 45 days:
attaway root # w
17:49:33 up 12 days, 18:33, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.09
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root vc/6 - 8Oct02 4days 0.50s 0.38s -bash
dattaway pts/0 satellite Thu12pm 5.00s 25.22s 25.15s pine
dattaway pts/1 satellite Fri 7am 10:15m 3.10s 0.33s -bash
dattaway pts/2 satellite Thu 4pm 29:55m 2:45m 0.20s /usr/sbin/sshd
root pts/3 satellite 5:47pm 1.00s 0.21s 0.10s w
Look at the first login date. I can't understand why the /proc/uptime
counter would reset itself. No failed processes, no panics, no dropped
connections (pine, shells, etc,) just a confusing uptime that made me
think the computer reset itself. It never did. The last syslog restart
entry was 57 days ago. Odd.
What can make the uptime counter reset?