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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Getting uptime Post 37327 by Perderabo on Tuesday 17th of June 2003 07:33:51 AM
Old 06-17-2003
I don't use OS X, but the kernel variable is called boottime in most kernels. It is an integer as would be returned by the time() system call. Your process will need read permission on /dev/mem to read it. If you have adb you can use that to read it via a shell script.

I use "ps -fp 1" rather than "uptime" to see when a system booted.

Option 4 would be to find a file that is changed at boottime. Do your startup scripts keep a log? What was the last time that log changed? If no such file exists, add something to the startup scripts to record boottime.
 

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CPURC(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  CPURC(8)

NAME
cpurc, termrc - boot script SYNOPSIS
cpurc termrc DESCRIPTION
After the kernel boots, it execs /boot (see root(3)), which in turn execs /$cputype/init. Init(8) sets the $service environment variable to cpu or terminal, and then invokes the appropriate rc script to bring the system up. Based on the values of $sysname and $terminal these scripts start appropriate network processes and administrative daemons and enable swap- ping. Cpurc sets /env/boottime to the time cpurc was executed and /env/NPROC to a value suitable for parallel compilation in mk(1). These files should be edited by local installations to reflect the configuration of their systems. SOURCE
/rc/bin/cpurc /rc/bin/termrc SEE ALSO
srv(4), namespace(6), dkconfig(8), init(8), listen(8) CPURC(8)
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