On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2009/5/27 Glen Barber <[email protected]>:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds
> >> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the
> >> actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for,
> >> let's call it accumulated uptime. :-)
> >>
> >
> > I like that idea, actually.. Not for faking cumulative uptime.  It'd
> > be kinda nice knowing how long a particular machine has been 'alive'
> > without looking through service tag records.
> >
> > --
> > Glen Barber
>
> How about:
>
> [ch...@amnesiac]~% ls -l /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  324 Apr 15  2008 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
> [ch...@amnesiac]~%
>
> I think I'd cry if I were to lose 553 days of uptime....
>
> Chris
>

You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop flag to a
database when the system starts and stops.  This wouldn't account for
improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a "stop" date/time was
missing.

If you also  documented the installation date/time of various components,
you could also track their lives separately.

Andrew
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