Re: What in /var/logs shows system reboot?
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:12:04PM -0400, francis picabia wrote:
> I'm running Debian 8.6, and looking at old logs. I'd like to confirm when
> the system was rebooted to invoke the newer kernel which fixed
> the Dirty COW bug.
last | grep boot
or, apparently (according to the man page):
last reboot
> If I have a complete
> copy of my /var/log from last October,
Urghhh. So it's not on a live system? It's on a chrooted disk image?
Then I think you need to use:
last -f /some/path/wtmp reboot
where /some/path/wtmp is the location of your chrooted disk image's
wtmp file.
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