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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:35:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: find date of last boot
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206072129120.67420@tripel.monochrome.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FD15461.6090109@makeworld.com>
References:  <4FD1360D.1060208@a1poweruser.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206072110350.67420@tripel.monochrome.org> <4FD15461.6090109@makeworld.com>

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On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Chris wrote:

> On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:
>>
>>> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>>>
>>> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
>>
>> That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all mine.

-snip-

> Why create something that is already built in?

Because I learned something by doing it.

> As I mentioned previously, the last command lists when the system was 
> rebooted.

I'm not sure it does:

$ last reboot
wtmp begins Fri Jun  1 08:31:38 EDT 2012
$ uptime
  9:30PM  up 529 days,  8:25, 4 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.18, 0.17

...and even so, would it show a cold boot, or only a reboot?

I'll credit Doug Hardie with the best solution:
$ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7248 Dec 26  2010 /var/run/dmesg.boot

> Keep well,

You too.

-- 
Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
**                     [ Busy Expunging </> ]



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