From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 04:58:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC86106564A for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:58:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from gw16.lax01.mailroute.net (lax-gw16.mailroute.net [199.89.0.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4708FC1C for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gw16.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B59B5BC31D; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:50:33 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from gw16.lax01.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.116]) by localhost (gw16.lax01.mailroute.net.mailroute.net [127.0.0.1]) (mroute_mailscanner, port 10026) with LMTP id DCb-U-gJ-PjW; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:50:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by gw16.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3680A5BC22B; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:50:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2461721BF; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:50:32 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Chuck Swiger References: <4FD1360D.1060208@a1poweruser.com> <4FD15461.6090109@makeworld.com> <86obou7fly.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <5E0240CD-6B6C-4221-A656-0006254132F9@mac.com> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.19.8.3; tzolkin = 2 Akbal; haab = 6 Zotz Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:50:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <5E0240CD-6B6C-4221-A656-0006254132F9@mac.com> (Chuck Swiger's message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:29:41 -0700") Message-ID: <86ipf276g7.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: find date of last boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:58:04 -0000 >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Swiger writes: Chuck> FreeBSD aggressively rotates the utmp/wtmp databases; most other Chuck> platforms leave it in place until the sysadmin decides to rotate Chuck> it per local policy. Chuck> Tweaking the monthly? periodic entries would change this, I'd Chuck> imagine.... Sure, but the question was likely involving a stock system, so yes, your mileage may vary, but let's consider a solution that works for a default system. "last reboot" isn't it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion