Hi, I have two linux RH 61 servers, which both rebooted at about 04:02 on December the 8th 2002. I am a little concerned since they have both been up for exactly 498 days.

is there something that stops RH 6.1 rolling over to 499 days? uptime.

some of the daemons appear to have restarted themselves, and since I have not configured them these daemons to auto restart on reboot I must suspect that perhaps the servers have not re-booted, note. * this has happened to both servers at exactly the same time.

Looking through the logs, one would expect to see the `date and time` but from he logs they do not appear to have been rebooted.

Suggestions please,

Is there some way of telling how long the server has been up without using `uptime`

Roly

Howdy,
Taken from the www.linuxcounter.org :
"The Linux kernel (at least up to 2.4.2) has a flaw: It computes the result of the "uptime" based on the internal "jiffies" counter, which counts the time since boot, in units of 10 milliseconds.
This is typecast as an "unsigned long" - on the Intel boxes, that's an unsigned 32-bit number.
Well, it turns out that in a 32-bit number, you can store 497.1 days before the number wraps"

Ta-da!

You could write a script real_uptime.sh to add 497.1 days to the output of uptime as a quick & dirty solution and set
alias uptime="real_uptime.sh"
Congrats on having such a reliable system..
HTH
Ian