[FreeBSD] Uptime in Unix-timestamp

[Glaanieboy]

Is there a utility in FreeBSD that allows you to see the systems uptime in Unix timestamp? I am asking this because I want an easier method of integrating the system's uptime in a PHP file. Unix timestamp makes life so much easier

 

[SPeedY_B]

You'd probably need to use something like this: http://talvi.lnet.lut.fi/~winter/perl/uptime.pl.txt

 

[Glaanieboy]

Thanks. Now I have to wait for the motherboad of my server to come back so I can try it out

 

[X-Istence]

Oooh nice script, errr to bad it needs this thing called /proc/uptime that only Linux users have.

# uptime.pl reads the system uptime in seconds since the Epoch from /proc/uptime and ...

Well anyways, long story short, FreeBSD does not have a /proc/uptime.

We have sysctl:

Breached# sysctl -a | grep boottime
kern.boottime: { sec = 1079091748, usec = 309886 } Fri Mar 12 06:42:28 2004

sec is what time it was when it was booted.


Check out the source for phpSysInfo if you want to know how to do it