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Date:      Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:29:41 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: find date of last boot
Message-ID:  <5E0240CD-6B6C-4221-A656-0006254132F9@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <86obou7fly.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On Jun 7, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 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.

FreeBSD aggressively rotates the utmp/wtmp databases; most other platforms
leave it in place until the sysadmin decides to rotate it per local policy.

Tweaking the monthly? periodic entries would change this, I'd imagine....

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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