Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:43:15 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: John <jwd@slowblink.com> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downtime report rc script? Message-ID: <B86A50BB-107B-4BD0-A361-D91610E74B4B@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20110614032343.GA96959@FreeBSD.org> References: <20110614032343.GA96959@FreeBSD.org>
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man last(1). You might need to tweak the newsyslog retention time for the files... Warner On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:23 PM, John wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I'm trying to put together a simple to report at boot time how > long the system was down. > > The script itself isn't really a problem, but I'm coming up short > looking for a reliable way to determine exactly when the sytem > went down regardless of whether it was a clean reboot or a crash. > > Am I missing something simple? I've thought about writing a simple > little program to touch a file once per second invoked by the downtime > rc script after querying the last time the file was touched... but > there must be a simpler solution. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-rc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-rc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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