shutdown logs

backslash885 · 11-03-2009, 05:36 AM

Hi this morning my pc was turned off, but yesterday night i leave it turned on. I looked in /var/log/messages but i didn't find any log about switching off, all i found was that at 5.00 AM it was warking, and next log was in 10.43 when i switched on.
If it has not logged switching off, is it possible to find some logs elsewhere?
Sure it was not an electric problem, i'm sure my power was on for all night (i have an hifi connected on the same socket, and if it lose power his clock reset, and it was not resetted!!)
thx for help

pwc101 · 11-03-2009, 05:41 AM

Take a look at the output of the last command:

Code:

last -x | less

It should say if there was a "proper" shutdown. Absence of a proper log of the shutdown would indicate to me it's a hardware/power problem.

backslash885 · 11-03-2009, 07:18 AM

i have only the line telling that at 10.43 it has booted. I also think to a hardware problem (not power), but i think it would log something before crashing, some errors elsewhere... where find it?

Oh, sorry i forgot, i'm running fedora 10

backslash885 · 11-04-2009, 06:07 AM

no one?

win32sux · 11-04-2009, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by backslash885

i have only the line telling that at 10.43 it has booted. I also think to a hardware problem (not power), but i think it would log something before crashing, some errors elsewhere... where find it?

It might have been impossible for it to log anything, depending on how sudden/serious the crash was.

backslash885 · 11-04-2009, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by win32sux

It might have been impossible for it to log anything, depending on how sudden/serious the crash was.

Yes I was thinking about something like temperature problem, in that case it would be log something, isn't it? But where? in /var/log/messages or elsewhere?
thx win32sux for your reply