Looking for speaker for gnu autoconf/automake

Mike Bilow mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net
Sat Apr 10 03:07:00 EDT 1999



rir wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 r> Is it feasable to add time to the uptime value
 r> through /etc/inittab or /etc/rc*.d entries?

 r> At arbitrary times after a systems is up?

Not without hacking the kernel, but it would be simple to do.  I suppose you
could make /proc/uptime writeable or something.  But why?

Also, this could introduce security vulnerabilities in some cases.
 
-- Mike


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