[Novalug] correcting uptime of a running machine

[Sh33p]

--- Matt Bidwell <bidwell at dead-city.org> wrote:

> Sh33p wrote:

> files, argh).  So it
> > set the date/time to Jan 15 20:02:31, and the
> year, as best as I can
> > tell, to 1938.  I guess that the BIOS battery is
> also dead.
> > 
> > I have the clock updated now and synchronized with
> NTP.  But now uptime
> > shows "17:31:19 up 24855 days,  3:14", and cat
> /proc/uptime shows
> > "17592186222249.00 93627.35".  This has caused
> some programs that do

> So let me get this straight.... You want your
> machine to report less
> uptime?  I would just lean back and start bragging
> to all my friends.

Well, normally I would be all over that, but I think
I'm going to have a hard time convincing them that
it's really been running without reboot for 68 years.
:)


> 
> Matt


FYI, I ended up doing a power cycle.  But I would be
interested in any thoughts on why doing a reboot or
telinit 6 just changed the runlevel from "N 5" to "6
5".  As best as I can tell, nothing else happened: no
services were stopped and it didn't reboot.

Ed

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