On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:08:20 +0100
Matthew Seaman articulated:
>In passing, apparently it seems that creating a user with a username of
>'reboot' is probably not recommended.
That would seem like a good idea. Interestingly enough, I had a friend
who had a password: "PassWord" that he used as a jo
On 08/06/2012 07:19, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 08/06/2012 05:50, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> Sure, but the question was likely involving a stock system, so yes, your
>> mileage may vary, but let's consider a solution that works for a default
>> system. "last reboot" isn't it.
>
> It's not that.
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/wtm
> 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 las
On 08/06/2012 05:50, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Sure, but the question was likely involving a stock system, so yes, your
> mileage may vary, but let's consider a solution that works for a default
> system. "last reboot" isn't it.
It's not that. 'last reboot' seems to be broken at the moment, at
On 08/06/2012 00:15, Fbsd8 wrote:
> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>
> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
% last reboot
will show the date of the last reboot if it is still in the current
/var/log/utx.log
Or at least it should: testing on my o
> "Chuck" == Chuck Swiger writes:
Chuck> FreeBSD aggressively rotates the utmp/wtmp databases; most other
Chuck> platforms leave it in place until the sysadmin decides to rotate
Chuck> it per local policy.
Chuck> Tweaking the monthly? periodic entries would change this, I'd
Chuck> imagine...
> "Chris" == Chris Hill writes:
Chris> I'll credit Doug Hardie with the best solution:
Chris> $ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot
Chris> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7248 Dec 26 2010 /var/run/dmesg.boot
Ouch! There've been some security patches since then. Are you sure you
want to tell someone that
Fbsd8 writes:
> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>
> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
In addition to the other responses:
sysctl kern.boottime
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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 platform
>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:35:19 -0400 (EDT),
>> Chris Hill said:
C> $ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot
C> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7248 Dec 26 2010 /var/run/dmesg.boot
For the sake of completeness:
me% stat -f %Sm /var/run/dmesg.boot
Jan 10 14:56:45 2012
me% ls -l -D '%d-%b-%Y %T' /var/run
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> Maybe introducing something along the /etc/rc execution?
> An /etc/rc.local entry like
>
> /bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" > /var/log/thisboot.log
>
> and then just look at the file. Requires at least one reboot
> to take effect. :-)
>
Yo
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:02:57 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 20:26:46 2012
> > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:24:49 -0500
> > From: Chris
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: find date of last bo
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 20:26:46 2012
> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:24:49 -0500
> From: Chris
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: find date of last boot
>
> On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, F
On 6/7/2012 8:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> "Chris" == Chris writes:
>
> Chris> Why create something that is already built in?
> Chris> As I mentioned previously, the last command lists when the system was
> Chris> rebooted.
>
> You must reboot a lot. My "last" log goes back only to
> "Chris" == Chris writes:
Chris> Why create something that is already built in?
Chris> As I mentioned previously, the last command lists when the system was
Chris> rebooted.
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,
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Chris wrote:
On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:
dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all mine
On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:
>
>> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>>
>> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
>
> That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz ar
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:
dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all
mine.
--- cut here ---
#!/bin/sh
#
# Find date of last boot
#
DAYS_UP=`uptime | awk
On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>
> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
Try "last | grep reboot".
Regards,
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On 7 June 2012, at 16:33, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>>
>> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
>
> Check the lines in /var/log/messages. Unless you'r
>> On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400,
>> Fbsd8 said:
F> dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other
F> commands to find date of last boot?
Try "last reboot".
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> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 18:16:50 2012
> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400
> From: Fbsd8
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: find date of last boot
>
> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>
> Are there some other command
hu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:
>>
>> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>>> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
>> Perhaps somehow subtract `uptime` from today's date?
>>
>> --
>>
;
>> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>>>
>>> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps somehow subtract `uptime` from today's date?
>>
>
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote:
> dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
>
> Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
Check the lines in /var/log/messages. Unless you're not
experiencing a newsyslog message (new log file started),
the &quo
; Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
>>
>
> Perhaps somehow subtract `uptime` from today's date?
>
> --
> Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org
> ** [ Busy Expunging ]
>
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:
dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
Perhaps somehow subtract `uptime` from today's date?
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dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
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