Hello list! I was just curious about the output of a command I typed. [root at LCENT02:~] #last reboot | head -1 reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.26.1. Wed Dec 29 20:03 (24+01:33) This is odd because this machine was rebuilt today (Saturday 1/22) in mid afternoon. Just curious how the output of this command could NOT know this? Also I notice that on select machines the command init 6 does not seem to reboot the machine. I have to type the reboot command in order for this to actually happen. Any troubleshooting tips here? Thanks -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F186197B
At Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:40:57 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > Hello list! > > I was just curious about the output of a command I typed. > > [root at LCENT02:~] #last reboot | head -1 > reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.26.1. Wed Dec 29 20:03 (24+01:33) > > > This is odd because this machine was rebuilt today (Saturday 1/22) in > mid afternoon. Just curious how the output of this command could NOT > know this?What was the hw clock set to on reboot?> > Also I notice that on select machines the command init 6 does not seem > to reboot the machine. I have to type the reboot command in order for > this to actually happen. Any troubleshooting tips here? > > Thanks >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
First troubleshooting step would be to run just "last". Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
Hello Tim, On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 21:40 -0500, Tim Dunphy wrote:> reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.26.1. Wed Dec 29 20:03 (24+01:33)> This is odd because this machine was rebuilt today (Saturday 1/22) inIs there a discrepancy with the time stamps on the installed files in f.e /etc or /var/log? *That* would be curious. This is probably just caused by an unsynced BIOS clock. Once your OS has synced the time with an external source the correct time will be written back to BIOS on reboot. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research