From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 03:29:48 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 95E291065675 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 03:29:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com (nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com [17.158.161.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771238FC0C for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 03:29:48 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (unknown [17.209.4.71]) by nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0M5A002RP1LHXX50@nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:29:42 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.6.7580,1.0.260,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-06-07_08:2012-05-21, 2012-06-07, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1206070323 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <86obou7fly.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:29:41 -0700 Message-id: <5E0240CD-6B6C-4221-A656-0006254132F9@mac.com> References: <4FD1360D.1060208@a1poweruser.com> <4FD15461.6090109@makeworld.com> <86obou7fly.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: FreeBSD - 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 03:29:48 -0000 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