1## 1. Introduction
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3Uptimed is an uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes a
4computer system ever had. It uses the system boot time to keep sessions
5apart from each other. Uptimed comes with a console front-end to parse the
6records, which can also easily be used to show your records on a web page.
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8The original author is Rob Kaper but since version 0.3.4 I (Radek Podgorny)
9took over the maintainership as Rob is overwhelmed by work (and so am I
10but I try my best). Remember, we're talking about about maintainance only.
11Still, feel free to contribute anything, branching and merging is not
12a problem.
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14## 2. Availability
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16You can always get the latest release from the Uptimed github repository:
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18https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed/
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20## 3. Acknowledgments
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22Uptimed was inspired by a similar utility called 'ud', but is completely
23different by design. Instead of using PID files to prevent multiple
24instances, Uptimed uses the system boot time to seperate log entries from
25each other. This is believed to be more reliable when switching runlevels or
26accidentely killing Uptimed or running multiple instances of it.
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28For a list of contributors to Uptimed, please read the CREDITS file.
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30## 4. Contacting the author/maintainer
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32Questions, comments, bugfixes, patches: Radek Podgorny <radek@podgorny.cz>
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34Original maintainer and author: Rob Kaper <rob@unixcode.org>
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