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to: PAUL QUINN
from: DARRYL PERRY
date: 2015-02-20 08:05:00
subject: Re: Debian wheezy uptime

On 02/20/15, Paul Quinn said the following...
 
 PQ> Hi! Markus,
 PQ> 
 PQ> On 20/02/2015 8:33 PM, you wrote to Darryl Perry:
 PQ> 
 PQ>  DP>> Each of those files exist, and the man for uptime does not exist.
 PQ> 
 PQ>  MR> I guess the next step is to download the procps package, extract upti
 PQ>  MR> and its man page and copy both to the correct locations.
 PQ> 
 PQ> Behind curtain #2 lurks a bash script of the name 'uptime', which
 PQ> extracts the top line of the "w" command output.  It breaks nothing and
 PQ> survives future OS upgrades... mmm... maybe.  8-)

That's a good option too.  But I think that simply using 'w' sans wrapper
script has its own appeal.  I was also getting around the uptime issue by
simply using top, since it has the same info.

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