From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 04:55:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DE7106566B for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:55:44 +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 C25428FC0A for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gw17.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A1A666208; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:55:43 +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 hYZKv5GhSER3; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:55:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by gw17.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7907F666229; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:55:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6089421CD; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:55:42 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Chris Hill 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 21:55:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Chris Hill's message of "Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:35:19 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: <8662b2767l.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: Chris , 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 04:55:45 -0000 >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Hill writes: Chris> I'll credit Doug Hardie with the best solution: Chris> $ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot Chris> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7248 Dec 26 2010 /var/run/dmesg.boot Ouch! There've been some security patches since then. Are you sure you want to tell someone that a machine has been running for over 18 months? -- 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