From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 10 16: 9:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7113C14C9A for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 16:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02884; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:09:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08587; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:09:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:09:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: RE: Server Uptimes project... Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-May-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On 10-May-99 John Baldwin wrote: >> On the soapbox... >> >> A while back someone announced the "Server Uptimes" page at >> http://uptime.hexon.cx. > > It doesn't do uptime on uptime, correct? It subtracts the sysctl variable boottime.tv_sec from the current time, so it is the actual uptime. If you go offline and come back on it will use the uptime from your box, not how long you've been online. > That would make it even better if one would have to take the box offline > for some hardware maintenance. > > Btw, my box daemon got assigned hostID 666, coincedence? =P FreeBSD's now in second place I'm happy to report with 57 machines. NT is in 3rd with 50. We also have the second highest average uptime behind NetBSD. > --- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl > The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project > Network/Security Specialist > *BSD: Accept no limitations... --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message