On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:49:58AM +0200, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
> On 16/03/10 01:10, Nick Holland wrote:
>
> >nope. Just pulled the plug out of a machine here to verify that, in
> >fact. :)
> >
> >That just means the system came up, not that it went down formally for
> >a reboot...
> >...
> >>Mar 15 09:46:05 server /bsd: WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
> >
> >and again, substantial evidence that the system went down hard and
> >unexpected, but obviously came back up on its own.
> >
> >Nick.
>
> Yep,
>
> I justed wanted to verify wtmp entry is on
> boot and not vise versa. Manual page is not strict
> about that.
If you mean utmp(5), it is dead wrong about this. It needs an update.
The "reboot" entry is added as part of the system startup setup
done by /sbin/init. The "shutdown" line is added by /sbin/{reboot,halt}.
Look for logwtmp(3) calls in their ".c".
