How to keep track of your servers uptime

Uptimed is a simple program that allows you to track the uptime of your server. It is easy to install and works great.



Here's how:

cd /tmp
wget http://podgorny.cz/uptimed/releases/uptimed-0.3.9.tar.gz
tar xvfz uptimed-0.3.9.tar.gz
cd uptimed-0.3.9
./configure
make
make install


Now issue the following:

uptimed -b
uprecords



You should see a display of your current uptime similar to the above image.

Now we want the program to start at boot, so per the INSTALL doc in the package:

nano /etc/rc.sysinit
---add the following to the end of the file

echo "Creating unique uptime daemon bootid..."
/usr/local/sbin/uptimed -b

nano /etc/rc.local
---add the following

echo "Starting uptime daemon..."
/usr/local/sbin/uptimed

There are other settings available in the config file. You need to move the file to /etc/

cp /tmp/uptimed-0.3.9/etc/uptimed.conf-dist /etc/uptimed.conf


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