Strange Uptime Inconsistancy

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hello,

I observed a very strange occurrence where BigFix reports incorrectly the uptime for a Linux AS 4 machine:

root@LinuxAS4 ~

uptime

13:45:12 up 234 days, 19:23, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.25, 0.20

root@LinuxAS4 bin

./qna

BESClientConfigPath must be set

BESClientActionMastheadPath not set, using /etc/opt/BESClient/actionsite.afxm

Q: uptime of operating system

A: 1799 days, 17:07:05

T: 213076295

Q: boot time of operating system

A: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:43:14 -0500

T: 8471421

Have you seen anything like that before and any suggestions of what might be causing, and how to resolve it? Thanks.

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(imported comment written by JackCoates91)

could this be it? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=97373

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Yes, it looks just about right. Thank you.

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So, this very old forum post still seems to be applicable.

I have a Ubuntu linux system that is reporting similar odd results:
Uptime - Unix 1971 days

However, a separate custom analysis using:
(boot time of operating system) returns
Boot Time Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:52:14 -0400

(uptime of operating system) returns
Uptime 00:01:38

Are there issues with the Linux inspectors?

Or do we truly need the calculation of:
(if it = 1 then it as string & " day" else it as string & " days") of ((now - boot time of operating system) / day)

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@blair_heiserman - what do you see as the date on the device when you ssh in?
-jgo

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Matches the more recent uptime / boot time as shown above.

But that’s through a custom property.