tuptime(1)

Report historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts. Total uptime.

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Description

TUPTIME

NAME

tuptime - Report historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts. Total uptime.

SYNOPSIS

tuptime [-h] [-A STARTUP] [-b] [-c] [-d DATETIME_FMT] [-e DECIMALS] [-E STARTUP] [-f FILE] [-g] [-i] [-k] [-l] [-n] [-o TYPE] [-p] [-q] [-r] [-s] [-S STARTUP] [-t] [--tat TIMESTAMP] [--tsince TIMESTAMP] [--tuntil TIMESTAMP] [-U STARTUP] [-v] [-V]

DESCRIPTION

Tuptime report historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts. Indeed, it can:

- Count system startups
- Register first boot time (a.k.a. installation time)
- Count nicely and accidentally shutdowns
- Uptime and downtime percentage since first boot time
- Accumulated system uptime (running and sleeping), downtime and total
- Register used kernels and boot IDs
- Report current uptime
- Print formatted table or list with the system history
- Narrow reports since, until or at a given startup or timestamp
- Output in csv format

OPTIONS

ARGUMENTS

ENVIRONMENT

TUPTIME_DBF

Set an alternative database file path. The argument -f, --filedb takes precedence over this.

DEFAULT OUTPUT

System startups:

Total number of system startups from since first timestamp available.

System shutdowns:

Total number of shutdowns done correctly or incorrectly.

System life:

Time counter since first startup timestamp available.

System uptime:
System downtime:

Percentage of time and time counter.

Longest uptime:
Longest downtime:

Time counter and date with the complete longest uptime/downtime register.

Average uptime:
Average downtime:

Average time counter.

Current uptime:

Actual time counter and datetime since registered boot timestamp.

EXAMPLES

tuptime

Default output.

tuptime -t

Enumerate system life as table.

tuptime -l

Enumerate system life as list.

tuptime -k

Add kernel information to the output.

tuptime --csv

Report in csv format.

tuptime -s

Change default human readable datetime/timestamp style and print times in seconds and datetimes in epoch.

tuptime -d ’%H:%M:%S %m-%d-%Y’

Change the datetime/timestamp format. By default the output use the configured system locales.

tuptime --tsince -31557600

Report since one year ago.

FILES

/etc/cron.d/tuptime

Scheduled cron file.

/etc/init.d/tuptime

Init file.

/lib/systemd/system/tuptime.service

Systemd service unit file. Register time values into database.

/usr/bin/tuptime

Main and only executable file.

/usr/share/doc/tuptime/

Directory with multiple documentation files.

/lib/systemd/system/tuptime-sync.timer

Systemd .timer unit for use instead of cron. Only executes tuptime-sync.service.

/lib/systemd/system/tuptime-sync.service

Systemd .service unit required by tuptime-sync.timer. Updates time values into database.

/usr/share/man/man1/tuptime.1

Manual page.

AUTHOR

Ricardo Fraile <r@rfmoz.eu>

COPYRIGHT

This product is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT any warranty; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS for a particular purpose.