[ale] uptime logs?

Nathan J. Underwood lists at cybertechcafe.net
Tue Jul 29 13:21:34 EDT 2003


Could you use the information from dmesg?  Or, could you edit cron.daily so that
the contents of /proc/uptime are written to a new log file? 

Quoting Preston Boyington <PBoyington at polyengineering.com>:

> I have been asked if there is some way of figuring the uptime and intervals
> of uptime of a machine.  I have never thought much about this, so I don't
> know if there is a log written somewhere.  
> 
> Also they wish to know if a user shut the system down or if it was a power
> issue, etc.
> 
> >From what I gather they want to be able to say "in June the system was up
> blah days until Joe installed the new hardware.  Before that we were up
> blah."
> 
> Other than that I don't know any specifics.
> 
> Preston
> 


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