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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:15:34 +1000 (EST)
From: Colin Campbell <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au>
To: "Thomas Krause, CI" <freebsd@chef-ingenieur.de>
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Subject: Re: How to get uptime?
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Hi,

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Thomas Krause, CI wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> ist there an other way to get the system uptime then the "uptime" command?
> I need the uptime for a for a script which is called by mrtg. The output
> of "uptime" is difficult to parse, eg:
>
>   8:06PM  up  8:47, 1 user, load averages: 0.48, 0.50, 0.42
>   8:05PM  up 55 days,  4:35, 1 user, load averages: 0.13, 0.08, 0.02

Depends what you want? For load averages, perl can do this:

	($la1, $la5, $la15) = ($_ =~ /(\d+).*ges:\s+(\d+.\d\d), (\d+.\d\d), (\d+.\d\d)/);

Where $la* are the load averages.

Colin
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