Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:47:30 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: find date of last boot Message-ID: <03962865-7560-43F4-B8E6-7F8652A1B488@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20120608013325.d3eee7bb.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4FD1360D.1060208@a1poweruser.com> <20120608013325.d3eee7bb.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 7 June 2012, at 16:33, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: >> dmesg command does not show date of last boot. >>=20 >> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? >=20 > Check the lines in /var/log/messages. Unless you're not > experiencing a newsyslog message (new log file started), > the "kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project." > string (first line of typical dmesg, check for your particular > OS version!) indicates when the system was booted. But > note that the date format is not the common sortable > kind of `date "+%d.%m.%Y"`. >=20 > Another idea (as already mentioned) is to subtract `uptime` > from current `date`. :- Check the timestamp on /var/run/dmesg.boot That is only written to when = the system boots.=
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