Re: uptime, where art thou ?

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:54:05AM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> I think it would be quite handy, if "last" would log the uptime, before a
> reboot takes place.
> 
> I've seen this on Linux.
> 
> Quote from the man page:
> "  The pseudo user reboot logs in each time the  system  is  rebooted.   Thus
>        last reboot will show a log of all reboots since the log file
> was created."
> 
> it looks like this:
> 
> reboot   system boot  2.6.11.4-20a-smp Fri Dec 22 16:44         (158+00:14)
> 
> Here you see the uptime was 158 days +
> 
> What do you think about it ?



Anything that has to be triggered by the reboot command will not work in
case of a crash...

        Geert