From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 01:41:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0722106564A for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from gw17.lax01.mailroute.net (lax-gw17.mailroute.net [199.89.0.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0B48FC0C for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gw17.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95522666286; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:32:47 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from gw17.lax01.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.117]) by localhost (gw17.lax01.mailroute.net.mailroute.net [127.0.0.1]) (mroute_mailscanner, port 10026) with LMTP id ntqj5b3UUNCh; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by gw17.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89566661A6; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AAD10206D; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:32:41 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Chris References: <4FD1360D.1060208@a1poweruser.com> <4FD15461.6090109@makeworld.com> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.19.8.3; tzolkin = 2 Akbal; haab = 6 Zotz Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:32:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4FD15461.6090109@makeworld.com> (Chris's message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:24:49 -0500") Message-ID: <86obou7fly.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find date of last boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 01:41:04 -0000 >>>>> "Chris" == Chris writes: Chris> Why create something that is already built in? Chris> As I mentioned previously, the last command lists when the system was Chris> rebooted. You must reboot a lot. My "last" log goes back only to the first of the month, and my uptime is 16 days right now, so I can't see the most recent reboot with last. YMMV, I guess. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion