Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

[John J. Foster]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> John J. Foster writes:
>
> > I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
> > machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of
> > curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know
> > I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me.
>
> The system logs boot and login dates in /var/log/wtmp, the last command
> shows the content of this binary file.
>
> last | grep "system boot" | head
>
> 	Hope you broke the record,
> 	Wonko
>
festus@localhost ~ $ last | grep "system boot"       
reboot   system boot  2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30  (00:51)

OK, so after looking at "man last", I tried

festus@localhost ~ $ last reboot
reboot   system boot  2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30  (00:51)

wtmp begins Sat May  1 08:23:36 2010

which doesn't really help much.

Any other ideas,
festus
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