find date of last boot

[Matthew Seaman]

On 08/06/2012 07:23, Chris Knipe wrote:
>> It's not that.  'last reboot' seems to be broken at the moment, at least
>> on stable/9:
> 
>> but last(1) isn't coming up with the goods:
>>
>> lucid-nonsense:~:% last reboot
>>
>> wtmp begins Fri Jun  1 06:14:46 BST 2012
> 
> last reads from /var/log/wtmp - which more than likely got rotated
> since your last reboot.

No.  Please read more carefully.

last(1) used to use /var/log/wtmp, but not on 9.x or above, which uses
/var/log/utx.log -- a different binary format, but basically the same
idea as wtmp.

And, no: as I showed, that file was not rotated since my last reboot.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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