Downtime report rc script?

[Warner Losh]

man last(1).  You might need to tweak the newsyslog retention time for the files...

Warner

On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:23 PM, John wrote:

> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
>   I'm trying to put together a simple to report at boot time how
> long the system was down.
> 
>   The script itself isn't really a problem, but I'm coming up short
> looking for a reliable way to determine exactly when the sytem
> went down regardless of whether it was a clean reboot or a crash.
> 
>   Am I missing something simple? I've thought about writing a simple
> little program to touch a file once per second invoked by the downtime
> rc script after querying the last time the file was touched... but
> there must be a simpler solution.
> 
>   Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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