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Subject: Re: find date of last boot
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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
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