Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:29:41 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: find date of last boot Message-ID: <5E0240CD-6B6C-4221-A656-0006254132F9@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <86obou7fly.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>
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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
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