uptime puzzler

Brian Dunbar <[email protected]> Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:06 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.managers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sun Managers,

A Friday Puzzler.

How do we get an uptime value of 11 years and change when that value is twice
the number of years we've owned it?

$ uptime
  1:54pm  up 4198 day(s), 19:54,  2 users,  load average: 0.34, 0.38, 0.39
$ uname -a
SunOS co-vm-998 5.10 Generic_138888-08 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
$

1. Looking at our logs, we did bring that entire rack down 350 days ago for
maintenance - so the figure is doubly improbable.
2. Pity we can't apply this to our SLA ...



Brian Dunbar
Systems Administrator

Plexus Corporation
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Cell: (920) 716-2027
email: [email protected]