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Re: [PLUG] trouble logs 101
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On Jan 22, 2008 10:50 AM, Ron Kaye <rkaye2@csc.com> wrote:
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> i am looking for a shutdown and/or reboot history.
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> cd /var/log
> cat message*.* | grep <magic word>
> does that look ok?
>
> what <magic word> will appear to indicate startup, boot, reboot
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> ie the server has locked, i have to reboot.
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> 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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