[CentOS] curious reboot output

Sun Jan 23 03:06:26 UTC 2011
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

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
> 

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