From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: Norbert van Nobelen <Norbert@hipersonik.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] 1500 days uptime.
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:35:23 +0000
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On Thursday 24 November 2005 22:32, Norbert van Nobelen wrote:
> great uptime. I have 3 readhat boxes who are now more than 1 year up, but
> bizar enough reset the uptime (command uptime) back to zero and started
> counting over again.

Hi Norbert,

Yes, uptime 'wraps' at about 493 days or something.

use:

last -xf /var/run/utmp runlevel

to get last change to run level (run level at boot, presumably).  This was 
posted on LKML ages ago where I learnt to use it to get true 'uptime'.

Nick
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