Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:19:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: find date of last boot Message-ID: <4FD19973.5040802@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <86ipf276g7.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <4FD1360D.1060208@a1poweruser.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206072110350.67420@tripel.monochrome.org> <4FD15461.6090109@makeworld.com> <86obou7fly.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <5E0240CD-6B6C-4221-A656-0006254132F9@mac.com> <86ipf276g7.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On 08/06/2012 05:50, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Sure, but the question was likely involving a stock system, so yes, you=
r
> mileage may vary, but let's consider a solution that works for a defaul=
t
> system. "last reboot" isn't it.
It's not that. 'last reboot' seems to be broken at the moment, at least
on stable/9:
lucid-nonsense:~:% uname -a
FreeBSD lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD
9.0-STABLE #15 r236465: Sat Jun 2 23:14:59 BST 2012
root@lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LUCID-NON=
SENSE
amd64
I rebooted a few days ago:
lucid-nonsense:~:% uptime
7:14AM up 3 days, 8:18, 1 user, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.01
And the utx.log file was last rotated over a week ago:
lucid-nonsense:~:% ls -la /var/log/utx*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 394 Jun 7 17:51 /var/log/utx.lastlogin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16841 Jun 8 07:06 /var/log/utx.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 24878 May 31 22:41 /var/log/utx.log.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13741 Apr 30 08:50 /var/log/utx.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 27886 Mar 31 22:52 /var/log/utx.log.2
but last(1) isn't coming up with the goods:
lucid-nonsense:~:% last reboot
wtmp begins Fri Jun 1 06:14:46 BST 2012
(nor does it work if I tell last to use the older utx.log files)
Cheers,
Matthew
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