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John J. Foster wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:18:08PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: |
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>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>>> John J. Foster writes: |
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>>>> I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home |
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>>>> machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of |
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>>>> curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know |
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>>>> I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me. |
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>>>> |
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>>> The system logs boot and login dates in /var/log/wtmp, the last command |
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>>> shows the content of this binary file. |
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>>> |
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>>> last | grep "system boot" | head |
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>>> |
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>>> Hope you broke the record, |
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>>> Wonko |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> festus@localhost ~ $ last | grep "system boot" |
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>> reboot system boot 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30 (00:51) |
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>> OK, so after looking at "man last", I tried |
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>> festus@localhost ~ $ last reboot |
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>> reboot system boot 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30 (00:51) |
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>> |
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>> wtmp begins Sat May 1 08:23:36 2010 |
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>> which doesn't really help much. |
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>> Any other ideas, |
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>> festus |
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> Damn - log-rotate cleans wtmp monthly |
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>> -- |
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>> It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a |
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>> clearer picture of reality than those who wield it. |
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>> Noam Chomsky |
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This is mine: |
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root@smoker ~ # last | grep boot |
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reboot system boot 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 Sun May 9 20:51 - 20:56 (4+00:05) |
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reboot system boot 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 Sun May 9 03:49 - 19:21 (15:31) |
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reboot system boot 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 Mon May 3 17:29 - 14:48 (4+21:18) |
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root@smoker ~ # |
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Isn't the last part of the line the uptime? I haven't done the math to |
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say that it is, just curious. Also, I have logrotate set to rotate |
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mine. I delete them after a while or when I need disk space. They do |
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consume space after a while. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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