On Tue, 09 May 2000 in "Re: very [OT] linux masquerading a lan", you wrote:
>On 9 May 2000, at 12:54, Quitt, Walter wrote:
>
>> i have NEVER
>> rebooted my linux box? no down time?
>
>Yeah, I been running linux for a couple of years, and I had a few
>crashes. It doesnt crash if its used command line only, but dos
>doesnt have much problem either. When ya put widows into it
>whether its the xwindows or the mswindows, ya have probs.

I've crashed X Windows a couple of times, but only when doing stupid things
with it (Development Kernel, with S3Virge Frame buffer support then running the
X server that uses the S3Virge and not the FB.) but I've always been able to
telnet into the box and shut down X Windows that way...


>Your biggest problem is you dont give the date and time down to
>the seconds and 1/100 of a second since your last reboot. If you
>are a true linux guy, shouldnt this be in your signature?
>You can probably find a script somewhere that will do that for you.
>If you don't know how, or else you will just have to write it yourself.
>Be sure to post it somewhere so others can put it in their sigs. We
>are allways curious to know how long a persons linux box has
>been running.

I use a script that calls gensig -o (output a sig now)
and then add a blank line then run uptime cutting off the load average...

this is it...
#!/bin/sh
gensig -o
echo
uptime | awk -F load {print "Uptime at" $1}

I don't make it go to the 1/100 of a second.  As I have to move locations for
work I don't get more than a month or two of uptime in one go.

About 9 days ago I had to go from Kent to Birmingham (that's in England for all
those either interested), so I've only got 9 days uptime...

Ian.
--
Wilkinson's Alternative Computer Definitions:
PPP: Post Pub Programming, the code written after a trip to the pub.
Usually rewritten the next day.

Uptime at  2:38am  up 9 days, 13:05,  6 users,