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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