uptimed8
Daemon to record uptime records
Usage
uptimed [-hbv]
[-e
<email>]
[-i
<interval>]
[-m
<count>]
Overview
This manual page documents the uptimed program.
uptimed is a daemon that records statistics about a machine's uptime. Use the uprecords(1) program to get uptime record statistics.
Options
These command-line options override settings in the configuration file /etc/uptimed.conf
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-h -
Show usage
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-b -
Create bootid and exit. 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.
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-p <file> -
Write PID to pidfile <file>
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-e <email> -
Send mail to <email> at milestones/records
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-i <interval> -
Use <interval> seconds for loop
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-m <count> -
Log a maximum of <count> entries
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-t <timespec> -
Set the minimum uptime to be considered a record
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-v -
Show version information
Releases
13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 3 times.
-h since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.
-? until Debian 13 (Trixie).