shutdown log file

ashley75 · 01-04-2007, 11:56 AM

could someone please tell me where I can find the information of when the server being shutdown/start on Linux RH 4.0?

thanks,

MensaWater · 01-04-2007, 12:44 PM

There is no shutdownlog like there is on some UNIX variants.

You should be able to figure out stop/start times by:

1) Running "uptime" which will show you how long it has been up. You can figure out last boot from that.

2) who -b (doesn't work in some distros) will give you actual date/time of last boot.

3) last -x will show you what /var/log/wtmp recorded for shutdowns. (Note you may have to specify last -x -f /var/log/wtmp.1 or something similar to see older logs.)

ashley75 · 01-04-2007, 12:56 PM

thanks so where do you see the info like this?

Jan 1 22:23:41 test portmap: portmap shutdown succeeded
Jan 1 22:23:41 test kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Jan 1 22:23:41 test kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Jan 1 22:23:44 test syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded
Jan 1 22:23:44 test exiting on signal 15
Jan 1 21:48:04 test syslogd 1.4.1: restart.

colucix · 01-04-2007, 01:01 PM

Usually they are in /var/log/messages.

MensaWater · 01-04-2007, 01:12 PM

Right. I guess I should have mentioned you can do it by inference based on seeing all the messages that occur during shut downs and boots in /var/log/messages (or messages.1 etc...)

Also for the most recent boot assuming you haven't had a lot of events typing "dmesg" will give you some quick information.

Your later question makes it sound as if you're looking for something like HP-UX's /etc/rc.log which is great but unfortunately only exists on HP-UX.