[Klug-general] Uptime Confusion

[Kevin Groves]

Karl Lattimer wrote:

>/proc/uptime is set on kernel boot, unless an application with
>permission has changed it then assume it is correct.
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Very strange then it should be something like 17000. Cant say what it 
was now because the machine has just gone nuts and lost localhost 
connection so had to reboot.

>try looking at your dmesg log and see the last time the server rebooted,
>you may find its gone down and backup because of a power surge etc...
>without you even noticing.
>

That's the funny thing. We all have vnc sessions on that machine and 
none were affected.

I think I'll have a bit of a google time then....

Kev,



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>On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 14:24 +0100, Kevin Groves wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>A bit of a strange thing, perhaps nothing to worry about but one of my 
>>systems says the uptime is only 4 days but cant be more than a couple of 
>>months.
>>
>>I dont remember what the uptime/top said last week as it's something I 
>>don't really keep an eye on.
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>>Just had a look in /proc/uptime and the number of seconds (I think 
>>that's what it is) is quite low compared to another server up 20days.
>>
>>Am I just going mad?
>>
>>Kev,
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