Well I was going for a record running for a personal reocrd on system uptime
then today the GUI locked up and then thereafter seemed the system stopped
responding all together...
I was had my system up at least 4 months. How do I find out the date the system
was last restarted so I can calculate just how long the system was on.
The system logs don't go back that far as they are rotating log files and are
overwritten every so often.

Any way to find this out?

Alex

Yeah, I'm pretty sure all you have to do is issue the command: uptime

Now I'm not sure if that is from the last reboot...I think it's the total time your computer has been on overall.

Hi,

You could try the last command. But it depends on /var/log/wtmp, don't know if that one is rotated (already) by your box.

Hope this helps.

@shadoxx428:

uptime only gives information about your current uptime, there's no 'history':

$ uptime
18:23:48 up 221 days, 19:43, 8 users, load average: 0.20, 0.24, 0.36

man uptime for (few) details.

hope this helps.

Hah, didn't know that. Guess I should do `man` more often before I go giving advice. I just love that command because of the simplicity and functionality of it. On Windows I was always wondering how long my computer had been on. Thanx for your help.

And one solution I could suggest, it probably wouldn't be the most accurate. But if you can remember a file you saved around 4 months ago, like when you first turned your computer on for the marathon, maybe if you look at the date created it could give you some point of reference.

I'm aware that what I just suggested works for the wrong reasons, but at least it should work...at least in theory. ^_^

thanks for all the replys, looks like i'm not gonna be able to find out.
I roughly calculated 4 1/2 months, pretty good i figure.

take care all
alex

You can look in here /var/logs/messages might take some time but it is in there.

Yeah I already looked in there.
The rotating set of logs only got back to mid September....
/var/log/messages.1 (.2 .3 and .4)

Wish I knew how to extend the log rotation so it doesn't get overwritten
after a few months...

man logrotate