Sysctl uptime

[Joshua Oreman]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:17:54PM -0700 or thereabouts, Remington L. wrote:
> Is there a sysctl string that can tell me my uptime?

No, but kern.boottime is the boot time of the kernel, so subtract that from
`date +%s` and you have uptime in seconds. Note that sysctl's output for this
field will need some parsing.

I found this out from the source code for `w', btw. Use the Source, Luke!

-- Josh

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