[olug] Uptime to boot date
Dave Hull
dphull at insipid.com
Tue Oct 29 17:42:25 UTC 2002
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Dave Hull wrote:
> Hm, not sure how to do that, but you could use this:
>
> [~]$ last | grep -i boot
Come to think of it, this won't do you any good if you're logs are rotated out
before your server is rebooted. If you've got /var/log/dmesg, you could check
the date of that file to get a close approximation of the last boot time.
Good luck.
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Dave Hull
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