How do I get my machine's up time programmatically?

MClayton · 03-11-2005, 12:26 PM

Sorry if this has been asked many times before, but I was unable to find anything by searching. I kept getting "waiting for linuxquestions.org" followed by a network error when I tried to search, so I guess the site is busy!

scuffell · 03-11-2005, 12:30 PM

So, do you want something like:

uptime > mail youremail@yourdomain.com

Then you put that in a crontab with: crontab -e
If you need to know how to work a crontab, see www.crontabrocks.org

MClayton · 03-11-2005, 12:39 PM

Thanks scuffell!
Actually the 'uptime' command was all I was after...it was that easy!

I'm still getting to know my way around Linux but am loving it!
My Linux machine serves out identical dynamically created web pages 3 times faster than my XP box (which is on superior hardware with twice the memory), so I'm sold!

I will look into the crontab stuff too.
Thanks again.