Re: uptime

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 22:29, dman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
> | also sprach Jason Boxman (on Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:22:26PM -0400):
> | > Dude, what kernel version is on those?!
> | 
> | > > piper:/var/log# uptime
> | > > 16:58:42 up 854 days, 11:46, 67 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.01
> | 
> | 2.0.22
> | 
> | > > titan:~# uptime
> | > > 11:06am up 1556 day(s), 4:30, 113 users, load average: 0.06, 0.13, 0.11
> | 
> | 2.0.38
> | 
> | these machines are around: piper as a modem/fax server, and piper as a
> | print server. work just fine. :)
> 
> The next killer-feature would be the ability to upgrade the kernel
> while it is running without losing the uptime.  :-).

That already exists as far as I know.  Scyld has a module called
Two-kernel monty that when loaded allows you to switch kernels without a
reboot.

--mike