David Colon on 22 Jan 2008 08:33:17 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] trouble logs 101


On Jan 22, 2008 10:50 AM, Ron Kaye <rkaye2@csc.com> wrote:
>
> i am looking for a shutdown and/or reboot history.
>
> cd /var/log
> cat message*.*  | grep <magic word>
> does that look ok?
>
> what <magic word> will appear to indicate startup, boot, reboot
>
> ie the server has locked, i have to reboot.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> ron

wtmp stores that.  grep reboot /var/log/wtmp.  Depending on how your
log rotation is setup, you might only have a day or so of history.  If
you still have older wtmp files in /var/log [wtmp.1, wtmp.2, etc],
then you can apply the grep to those.  grep reboot /var/log/wtmp*

David
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