Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!icus!limbic!gil From: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs Subject: STIME April 20 on ps Keywords: ps bootup time Message-ID: <369@limbic.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 02:53:26 GMT Distribution: unix-pc Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, NY Lines: 29 Has anyone else experienced this phenomena? My system was only up for a day, but ps reports: UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND root 0 0255 Apr 20 ? 1408:55 swapper root 1 0 3 Apr 20 ? 0:12 init root 2 0 1 Apr 20 ? 0:00 pagedaemon root 3 0 3 Apr 20 ? 3:49 windaemon gil 535 1 3 07:01:25 w1 0:06 ksh root 1209 1 3 22:44:08 ? 0:00 uugetty gil 1218 535 3 22:47:00 w1 0:01 postnews gil 1219 1218 9 22:47:33 w1 0:02 vi root 109 1 3 23:01:53 w1 0:26 cron gil 1221 1219 15 22:48:09 w1 0:00 sh gil 1222 1221 75 22:48:10 w1 0:01 ps that my system processes were started on April 20. Note that I did a hardware reset when I booted the machine the last time. Could this be taking the time from a software R/T clock which hasn't been set yet until the hardware R/T clock is copied to the software one during some phase of the boot process? I know that sometimes the STIME is correct, but I really don't have the desire to keep rebooting the machine to find out when. +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | Gil Kloepfer, Jr. | Net-Address: | | ICUS Software Systems | {boulder,talcott}!icus!limbic!gil | | P.O. Box 1 | Voice-net: (516) 968-6860 | | Islip Terrace, New York 11752 | Internet: gil@icus.islp.ny.us | +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+