Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:27:25 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Subject: Re: find date of last boot Message-ID: <4FD19B4D.8070508@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B4TWFsiACgzdOms0f%2BpH%2BffckYKsOcJTkAXnihwDt68YWi4og@mail.gmail.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> <4FD19973.5040802@infracaninophile.co.uk> <CA%2B4TWFsiACgzdOms0f%2BpH%2BffckYKsOcJTkAXnihwDt68YWi4og@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/06/2012 07:23, Chris Knipe wrote:
>> It's not that. 'last reboot' seems to be broken at the moment, at least
>> on stable/9:
>
>> but last(1) isn't coming up with the goods:
>>
>> lucid-nonsense:~:% last reboot
>>
>> wtmp begins Fri Jun 1 06:14:46 BST 2012
>
> last reads from /var/log/wtmp - which more than likely got rotated
> since your last reboot.
No. Please read more carefully.
last(1) used to use /var/log/wtmp, but not on 9.x or above, which uses
/var/log/utx.log -- a different binary format, but basically the same
idea as wtmp.
And, no: as I showed, that file was not rotated since my last reboot.
Cheers,
Matthew
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