uptime

skate · 08-13-2003, 05:14 PM

How can i change the uptime in Red Hat 9.0 ?
My machine is on 12 days up and i wanna to change it for more time, something like 50 or more

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If someone know how can i change it just to type it here... thanx~

trickykid · 08-13-2003, 05:16 PM

You can't that I know of, its basically pulling this information from your system and when it booted for the first time. Unless you can trick your computer into thinking it booted 50 days ago instead of 12, I really don't see the point in you trying to do this. Why not just let it keep running without a reboot, you'll get there in 38 more days...

skate · 08-13-2003, 05:19 PM

heh thanx for the post|~

Proud · 08-13-2003, 05:25 PM

Hell if you want to brag about uptime, edit a screenshot showing something like GKrellm.

trickykid · 08-13-2003, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Proud
Hell if you want to brag about uptime, edit a screenshot showing something like GKrellm.

Or you can just run the command uptime and post here, then just edit it...

acid2000 · 08-13-2003, 05:41 PM

Sorry to disagree but i'm sure that /proc/uptime has something to do with it.

acid_kewpie · 08-13-2003, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by trickykid
Or you can just run the command uptime and post here, then just edit it...

why would anyone want to do that?

Code:

25:40:15 up 8122 days, 11 min,  0.6 users,  goat average: 0.42, -0.35, 23.49

i'm not ashamed to admit this.. why should anyone else?

trickykid · 08-13-2003, 05:47 PM

Code:

 04:43:33 up  4.6 Billion Years,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.07

My machine runs the Earth.. if I reboot, you won't want to know the outcome...

Looking_Lost · 08-13-2003, 06:11 PM

Quote:

My machine runs the Earth.. if I reboot, you won't want to know the outcome...

I hope you're using a UPS for all our sakes then

Proud · 08-13-2003, 06:35 PM

Nope, once the sun goes that's it, no backups for us

skate · 08-14-2003, 02:31 AM

Heeee and so.... in /proc/uptime what i must type there is 1 empty file named uptime?

MasterC · 08-14-2003, 02:42 AM

Call:
cat /proc/uptime
If you see some numbers, feel free to manipulate them, you might be able to echo something:
echo 10000 > /proc/uptime
And and see if that up's the uptime

Good Luck!

Cool

MasterC · 08-14-2003, 02:44 AM

Nope, it didn't work for me

See about adjusting your system clock, maybe that'll bump that uptime to the figures you are looking for. Or, if you'd like you can point them towards my box, currently running a 72/73 day uptime ( www.masterc.no-ip.org/forums at the bottom of the page ) and just tell em it's yours

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skate · 08-14-2003, 02:57 AM

ahum it doesnt works.... :|

MasterC · 08-14-2003, 03:11 AM

How about an alias? Remove the execute bit on your uptime call:
chmod a-x /usr/bin/uptime
And then create yourself a script or alias to call a complete fake uptime?

Code:

#!/bin/bash
date
echo  up  88 days,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.07

Save that as uptime in /usr/local/bin (the different directory than the real uptime is in). Make it executable:
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/uptime
And then execute it:
uptime
And see if it works.

Alternatively, an alias:
Open up your ~/.bashrc And add an alias:
alias uptime='date && echo up 88 days, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.07'
Save and exit, then source it:
. .bashrc
And then type:
uptime (after removing the execute bit from the real uptime app of course) and see if that works

Cool