[CLUE-Tech] Quick reboot question

[Brandon N]

wtmp or wtmpx, it's a binary file, not readable
man last
man wtmp or wtmpx
or maybe man utmp

Brandon 
--- Kevin Cullis <kevincu at orci.com> wrote:
> "Jeffery C. Cann" wrote:
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> > Kevin,
> > 
> > It is possible to determine the number of reboots that your system
> has
> > undergone:
> > 
> > $ last reboot | wc -l
> > 
> > Did you look at the output of the 'last reboot' command?  It is by
> date, so
> > you would be able to determine the number of reboots in the past
> few days.
> > 
> > the 'last' utility is a standard binutils utility.  This means that
> all Linux
> > distributions (except specialized ones) have the 'last' program.
> > 
> > Try 'man last' for more info.
> > 
> > Later
> > Jeff
> 
> Jeff and Brandon,
> 
> This is what I got when I typed last reboot
> 
> kevin at cullis:~ > last reboot
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Mon Jan  8 00:01        
> (5+21:35)   
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sun Jan  7 23:47         
> (00:12)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sun Jan  7 23:44         
> (00:02)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sun Jan  7 23:40         
> (00:06)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sun Jan  7 23:14         
> (00:24)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sun Jan  7 23:06         
> (00:06)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sun Jan  7 22:08         
> (00:57)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Thu Dec 28 05:56        
> (10+16:10)  
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sun Dec 10 22:51        
> (27+23:15)  
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Fri Dec  8 22:47         
> (00:02)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Tue Dec  5 20:24        
> (5+02:20)   
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sat Nov 25 19:00        
> (10+01:19)  
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Thu Nov 16 23:33        
> (4+10:04)   
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Thu Nov 16 23:27         
> (00:05)    
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Fri Nov 10 15:43        
> (6+07:42)   
> reboot   system boot  2.2.16           Sat Nov  4 05:32        
> (6+10:09)   
> 
> wtmp begins Sat Nov  4 05:32:49 2000
> 
> Wow, another neat tool.
> 
> I typed what you said Jeff, and this is what I got:
> 
> kevin at cullis:~ > last reboot | wc -l
>      18
> 
> My question: what file and I looking at when I type the last reboot
> command? Or, basically, where am I getting this info?
> 
> Man, is this something really new and I like it.
> 
> Kevin
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