Machine Running Time

Renegade498 · 05-07-2005, 10:27 PM

If I recall correctly there is a command you can type in the terminal that will tell the user how many the days the machine has been running for. What's the syntax for this command again?

kencaz · 05-07-2005, 10:29 PM

uptime

KC

ayteebee · 02-01-2006, 08:02 AM

There are a few commands you can use, "uptime" gives basic information on how long the system has been up and the average load; "w" gives the same as "uptime" but also provides information on who is logged in and what they're doing (the w is for who); "cat /proc/uptime" shows how long the system has been running, in seconds.

Here's some examples of what they look like:

Code:

andy@linux> uptime
  1:55pm  up 21 days 20:49,  2 users,  load average: 0.50, 0.27, 0.21

Code:

andy@linux> w
 13:55:56 up 21 days, 20:49,  2 users,  load average: 0.46, 0.27, 0.21
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
andy     tty4      10Jan06 22:41   5.46s  0.07s vim
andy     :0        10Jan06 ?xdm?   2days  0.02s /bin/sh /opt/kde3/bin/startkde

Code:

andy@linux> cat /proc/uptime
1889367.47 1782617.72