[CentOS] finding out the time of the second-to-last reboot

Mon Aug 9 20:04:03 UTC 2010
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 8/9/2010 2:59 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a CentOS box that became non-responsive today for some obscure
> reason and had to be rebooted. Is there a way to find out when it last
> had to be rebooted before today? uptime gives you no history past the
> very last reboot, so obviously I need to find some other way to get an
> answer to my question.
>
> Thanks for any and all tips.

'last' should give you a history of reboots and logins.  Also, an 
assortment of things that happen during bootup are logged to 
/var/log/messages.

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   Les Mikesell
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