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Date:      Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:59:07 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Jason Welsh <jawelsh@cisco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proc and uptime on freebsd
Message-ID:  <19990909165907.A51179@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <37D7B8F6.1FA8EC1A@cisco.com>; from Jason Welsh on Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:41:10AM -0400
References:  <37D7B8F6.1FA8EC1A@cisco.com>

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On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:41:10AM -0400, Jason Welsh wrote:
> im trying to help someone port an uptime daemon to Freebsd (since I cant
> find any).. and hes asking about where to find system uptime in /proc
> i know in linux, its easy, its just /proc/uptime
> but /proc seems to be a totally different animal on freebsd.
> is there a file that keeps uptime in /proc??
> 
AFAIK, no.

The way uptime is measured by /usr/bin/uptime is
`/bin/date`-`/sbin/sysctl kern.boottime`.


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