no days in uptime

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@EWI.TUDelft.NL>]

Hi,

I have encountered a strange problem in my uptime status. I have a
computer running for over 500 days and a script that displays the uptime
in days with MRTG.

For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day information
any more:

$ uptime
 08:36:00 up 14:48,  2 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.16

and

$ cat /proc/uptime
53341.82 17513797.50


I am sure of 2 things:
- it wasn't me (I was on vacation and I don't have auto-update scripts
running)
- the computer doesn't reboot daily, since /tmp isn't cleaned

I am running kernel 2.4.18 on a PowerMac.

Any ideas what is going on here?

Thanks in advance,
Sebastiaan



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