I'm looking for a free script to show how long my server has been running....

There's this great utility called "Uptime" from the command line.

Alternatively, if you are looking for a web interface, you could do phpsysinfo:

http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/

In SSH, just type "uptime".

If you want something a bit more "complex", do that in Perl:


#!/usr/bin/perl

chop($_ = `uptime`);
/(^.* up\s)(.*)(\s+\d*\suser.*)/;
my @time = split(/,/, $2);
for (@time) {
next unless($_);
s/min/minutes/;
s/days/days and /;
s/\s*(\d+):(\d\d)\s*/$1 hours/;
print;
}
exit;

<?php system('uptime'); ?>

Yes, phpsysinfo is great, i'm using it.