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wwn

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Registered: 2013-03-25

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[solved] uptime ... command has gone

Hello all,

locate (without an db update) shows me /usr/bin/uptime. A call delivers: "bash: uptime: command not found. There is no uptime in /usr/bin.
How can I restore uptime? Reinstalling bash does not help.

Thx a lot
wwn

Last edited by wwn (2014-01-14 20:52:43)

tomk

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

It's not part of bash. Reinstall procps-ng.

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

Perhaps you should run updatedb so that locate gives correct answers.

Then, check that the correct package is installed:

ewaller$@$odin ~ 1002 %uptime
 12:48:47 up 1 day, 19:35,  4 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.18, 0.21
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1003 %which uptime
/usr/bin/uptime
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1004 %pacman -Qo $(which uptime)
/usr/bin/uptime is owned by procps-ng 3.3.9-1
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1005 %

Edit: Dang, I am slow today    Snaked again....

Last edited by ewaller (2014-01-14 20:52:14)

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wwn

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

thx a lot. it works.

β ™

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

$ pkgfile uptime
core/procps-ng

wwn

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

pacman -Qo

has been of value

karol

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

@ewaller

$ pacman -Qo uptime
/usr/bin/uptime is owned by procps-ng 3.3.9-1

pacman doesn't need 'which' since version 3.4.0 https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.g … /NEWS#n373 :-)

ewaller

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

pacman doesn't need 'which' since version 3.4.0 https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.g … /NEWS#n373 :-)

Thanks! good to know. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
I guess I could have really shown my vintage with pacman -Qo `which uptime`   

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jasonwryan

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

Not an Installation issue, moving to Apps and DEs...

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WonderWoofy

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

pacman doesn't need 'which' since version 3.4.0 https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.g … /NEWS#n373 :-)

Whoa!  That is great!  I too was still which'ing... though now everything is in /usr/bin.

karol

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Re: [solved] uptime ... command has gone

pkgfile is more versatile

$ pacman -Qo mkinitcpio.conf
error: failed to find 'mkinitcpio.conf' in PATH: No such file or directory
$ pacman -Qo /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf is owned by mkinitcpio 16-2
$ pkgfile mkinitcpio.conf
core/mkinitcpio
extra/archiso

as locate doesn't search some places by default and pkgfile should be faster than using 'find' to get the full path.