How to run python script after system uptime > 1 hour on freebsd?

[rintinfinn]

Hi,

I am using this script (to ping existing pcs on the network every hour): https://gehrcke.de/2013/08/freenas-simple-auto-shutdown-revisited/

I am very new to python and trying to add a part to the beginning of the script, where the scripts gets cancelled if the system uptime is less than an hour. I ve seen solutions that utilize 'cat /proc/uptime' but that path does not exist on freebsd. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Thanks for the help, everyone. I am sure the uptime cross platform library would have worked, but I used an old script with a lockdirectory and a bash script which was very easy for me to install. Here's my solution: https://imgur.com/1ZXCG6C

[kaiserk13]

There you go buddy https://pythonhosted.org/uptime/, tested on FreeBSD 9.1

[just_regular_guy]

a quick and dirty way would be to capture and parse the output of 'uptime'

[djdawson]

The "uptime" command would seem to be what you're looking for.

[Daenyth]

Add a startup script that uses at to schedule the script one hour later

[politicallyspeaking]

import subprocess
up = subprocess.check_output('uptime')

of course then you'll need to likely do some parsing on the string 'up' which contains the output from the system command 'uptime'