Alan:

There is something I am remembering from a discussion in my local LUG that some
counter resets after 497 days up, so when you go over that amount of time up, it
goes back to 0 and starts counting again.  One of the guys in the LUG had a
machine running an ancient version of RedHat that had reset twice without a
reboot.  HTH.  Peace, Love, Linux, Dennis in Victoria

"Alan N." wrote:

> I'm running a Linux machine at work ( very sucessfully I might add! ) that
> basically is an automated FTP server to get weather maps from the TV
> weatherman's SGI network and FTP 'em to the tv stations website.  I checked
> the machine Monday, seeing that today ( Friday ) would be the machines 500th
> day of uptime.  So I went in there today to gloat at it and it had an uptime
> of 3 days.!! WHAT this cannot be!!
>
> It seems not to have rebooted, since gnome was running with the exact 2
> desktops ( one TOP, the other a terminal ) open as they were.
>
> If this machine would have rebooted I would expected to see the GUI login
> screen running..  I did "uptime" 3 days as well.
>
> I searched in /var/logs and found the file which contains the boot up log..
> Date on is was Sept. 27, 1999.  So I cannot see where the machine rebooted,
> crashed and the graphix on the website never hiccupped, they are updated
> every 10 minutes with timestamps placed on them with the SGI's creation of
> the graphx..
>
> Anyone know WHY this is.. I was really bummed. It says 3 days uptime but I'm
> convinced it's 500..
>
> Thanks
> Alan
>
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