Added on banner silly "Up since"

[dentaku65]

On /boot/dietpi/.dietpi-banner_custom
Add:
stat -c %w / |cut -f1 -d "."

Enable on /boot/dietpi/.dietpi-banner
aDESCRIPTION[10]='Up since'

[MichaIng]

Based on the command, this is to show how old the image is, right?

My first thought was: "but we have an uptime option already?", then recognised that this is something different 😄.

[dentaku65]

Hi MichaIng,
yep, command shows DietPI first run and operate since. Can be considered "age".
And yes my DietPI is operating since "2018-03-13 23:51:07" without issue :-)
Den

[MichaIng]

To be precise, for new images, it is the time at which the image was generated, or more precisely, at which our build script creates some initial directories, before running mmdebstrap to install the initial Debian base system 🙂.

For a first boot timestamp, there are some log files, like /var/tmp/dietpi/logs/fs_partition_resize.log which could be used. But they are of course not guaranteed to exist in any case. /boot/dietpi/.hw_model might be also an idea. It is re-created on every boot, but never removed, AFAIK.

[dentaku65]

Well, English is not my native language, I just simplified in "Up since". No date found in the logs on /var/tmp/dietpi/logs
A question: because I've always did the upgrade from version to version, why I don't have the up-to-date banner but the one still coming from an old release?

[MichaIng]

I meant to use the birth date of those log files, like you currently to with /:

stat -c '%w' /var/tmp/dietpi/logs/fs_partition_resize.log | cut -f1 -d '.'

About your question: /boot/dietpi/.dietpi-banner_custom is a config file that is not touched with DietPi updates, so any custom banner entry survives updates, if this is what you mean. Only /boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-banner is updated.

[dentaku65]

I meant to use the birth date of those log files, like you currently to with /:

stat -c '%w' /var/tmp/dietpi/logs/fs_partition_resize.log | cut -f1 -d '.'

Got the point.

About your question: /boot/dietpi/.dietpi-banner_custom is a config file that is not touched with DietPi updates, so any custom banner entry survives updates, if this is what you mean. Only /boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-banner is updated.

In this case I meant I don't have "Uptime" from your screenshot... but perhaps I commented out on some my experiment during the years which I forgot atm :-)

[MichaIng]

Uptime is not enabled by default. Run dietpi-banner command to toggle options.

[dentaku65]

Done!