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Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how to find the System Startup time.

Currently I am using "who -b" to get last reboot time.

I wanted to know is there any log file for SCO Openserver 5, in which all this sort of imformations are kept.

I have tried searching the forum with words like "WHO Command" but being very commonly used word, it is not giving me any specific o/p.

Best Regards

Shoeb

Try the commands w or uptime. A sneaky way is to look at the start time for init which must be pid 1...
ps -fp 1

It's a couple of years since I used SCO Openserver but I'm pretty sure that the system log was /usr/adm/messages (or maybe var/adm/messages) and this contained detailed startup/shutdown messages as well as lots of interesting alerts in between.

cheers

Thanks Perderabo and thestevew,

I am sorry but I am not able to get the startup time with the commands you have suggested Perderabo, My O/p of the commands are somewhat cryptic to me.

ps -fp 1 is giving me STIME as 17:58:24 which is ofcourse my shutdown time and TIME as 0:00:00.

w & uptime are giving me current time with a notation of up for so many min. Like 9:13 am up 16 mins,

I think I have to do calculations to find out exact startup time.

Just for my knowledge, is using "who -b" is not correct to get the startup time.

Thestevew, I have checked both the files you have mentioned in your post, both exist but nothing written in it.

Hope you people will not get annoyed to put some more light on the issue.

Best Regards

Shoeb

STIME is the start time for the process. init starts at boot-up time.

You can get the last reboot time for your server by running the command:

Code:

last reboot | head -1

Assuming that you haven't been fiddling with the utmp/wtmp files then you should get the last time you rebooted your server.

Thank for your quick replies,

I am sorry Perderabo for my ignorance about the def of STIME, but STIME which is 17:58 is not my startup time, I booted my system at 8:58 in the morning and it is showing 17:58. God only knows why it is not updating it.

blowtorch, my "last reboot" command is just giving me headings, nothing else.

One more thing, can anyone of you tells me where System Log files are kept in SCO Openserver 5.0.5.

Thank you all for your sincere efforts.

Best Regards

Shoeb