Re: uptime, where art thou ?

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:25:27AM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> Thanks, but I meant, how can I find out the uptime, before the reboot has
> taken place. The one that got lost.


You can only do that by regularly polling the uptime and logging it, either
via a local script, or remotely via SNMP and cricket for example.

After a reboot, the system itself has "forgotten" its previous uptime (how
should it store it eg. in case of a panic?).

        Geert