find date of last boot

[Matthew Seaman]

On 08/06/2012 05:50, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 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.

It's not that.  'last reboot' seems to be broken at the moment, at least
on stable/9:

lucid-nonsense:~:% uname -a
FreeBSD lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD
9.0-STABLE #15 r236465: Sat Jun  2 23:14:59 BST 2012
root at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LUCID-NONSENSE
 amd64

I rebooted a few days ago:

lucid-nonsense:~:% uptime
 7:14AM  up 3 days,  8:18, 1 user, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.01

And the utx.log file was last rotated over a week ago:

lucid-nonsense:~:% ls -la /var/log/utx*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    394 Jun  7 17:51 /var/log/utx.lastlogin
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  16841 Jun  8 07:06 /var/log/utx.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24878 May 31 22:41 /var/log/utx.log.0
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13741 Apr 30 08:50 /var/log/utx.log.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  27886 Mar 31 22:52 /var/log/utx.log.2

but last(1) isn't coming up with the goods:

lucid-nonsense:~:% last reboot

wtmp begins Fri Jun  1 06:14:46 BST 2012

(nor does it work if I tell last to use the older utx.log files)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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