On 2018-10-16 10:57, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2018-10-16, Peder Sverdrup via cygwin wrote: >> I am making a script and need to know when the computer was last booted. >> This can be done with who -b command. I have installed the minimum cygwin >> and this command is not available. >> Which package do I need to install in order to have this command available >> (or any other command that can tell when the computer was last booted). > The procps-ng package provides the uptime command which will tell > you how long it has been since the computer was last booted.
/var/run/utmp system startup/shutdown records are not written so who -b shows nothing although who is included in cygwin Base package coreutils /proc/uptime shows number of seconds wall time since startup, and number of seconds idle time since then e.g.: $ cat /proc/uptime; date -d"now - `cut -d' ' -f1 /proc/uptime` seconds"; uptime 115395.52 107152.61 2018 Oct 15 Mon 12:05:18 20:08:34 up 1 day, 8:03, 2 users, load average: 1.81, 1.58, 1.76 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
