UPTIMED(8)

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✨ UPTIMED ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual for uptimed — the System Manager's Manual girlie herself — and she's a daemon that records uptime records. yes, records of records. it's giving recursive slay. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

uptimed — daemon to record uptime records 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

uptimed [ -hbv ] [ -e <email> ] [ -i <interval> ] [ -m <count> ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This manual page documents the uptimed program. fr fr, that's the whole point of me being here.

uptimed is a daemon that records statistics about a machine's uptime. like, it literally just sits there, keeping receipts on how long your box has been awake. no cap.

Use the uprecords(1) program to get uptime record statistics. that's your bestie for actually reading the receipts. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay so, quick heads up: these command-line options override settings in the configuration file /etc/uptimed.conf. so if you've got beef between the config and the flags, the flags win. periodt.

  • -h — Show usage. the "help meee" button. 🙈
  • -b — Create bootid and exit. ⚠️ heads up: this option is ignored on BSD systems, because the BSD kernel keeps a static boot time variable in memory, so Uptimed does not need to cache this value. BSD said "I got this myself, thanks." 💀
  • -p <file> — Write PID to pidfile <file>. yes, your process ID goes in a little file. it's its own little locker. 🔥
  • -e <email> — Send mail to <email> at milestones/records. so when your uptime hits a milestone, it emails you like a proud mom. 😭
  • -i <interval> — Use <interval> seconds for loop. how often the daemon does its little loop-de-loop. ⭐
  • -m <count> — Log a maximum of <count> entries. a cap. a limit. a "know when to stop" moment. 💅
  • -t <timespec> — Set the minimum uptime to be considered a record. like a vibe check for records: if you don't hit the minimum, you don't count, bestie. 🧚
  • -v — Show version information. who even am I? find out here. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Rob Kaper <cap@capsi.com>. 🎀

This manual page was written by Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It was last modified for uptimed version 0.3.7. iconic behaviour honestly. ✨

okay and that's a wrap, my love — this page came from the System Manager's Manual, dated May 28, 2004, for UPTIMED(8). 2004 said "let me serve forever" and she did. 💖🌸🦋👑

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