No, the real geek would cat /proc/stat, take the cpu times, add them together, divide by 100 to get seconds of uptime, divide by 60 to get mins, divide by.... Or alias "w" to "cat /proc/net/dev; vmstat; w" for a lazy way to watch some system stats quickly. Im not gonna say if I do that or not.... At 09:01 AM 11/22/00 -0600, you wrote: >> of course everyone is going to say uptime, but real geeks cat /proc/uptime >> ;) > >No, I think the *real* geek would think of that, but opt for the solution >with fewer keystrokes. Geek would instead go for the letter "w". But >perhaps the excessive output would be deemed undesirable, and so the >ultimate result would be along the lines of creating "alias u = 'uptime'". >This has the added advantage of customizing one's personal environment so >that it's more obscure to the layman. > >Andy > >> Thank You, >> Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >