topic verify boot date in Operating System - HP-UX

verify boot date

iranzo — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:02:32 GMT

Hello,

On a script i want to test the boot date on HPUX server

How can i do ?

thanks a lot .

Re: verify boot date

Fabrice Meynard — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:06:43 GMT

Hi,

you can use uptime or search in syslog.log "syslogd: restart" followed by vmunix entries. Care, "syslogd: restart" can be here if you restart manualy syslogd.

Hope this helps.
Fabrice

Re: verify boot date

T G Manikandan — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:15:26 GMT

If you want to know the Hpux installation date you can use

/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest
to get it.

If you want to know the server restarted date then just do
#cat /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log|head -1|awk -F " " '{print $1,$2}'

Thanks

Re: verify boot date

leereg_6 — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:16:31 GMT

Hi,

Or you can just try the command:
#last boot
and the prompt will be:

wtmp begins Fri Apr 19 09:26

Hope it will help!

Re: verify boot date

Jerome Baron — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:27:47 GMT

Hi,

or you use :
$ who -b
. system boot Oct 30 13:16

Regards,
Jerome

Re: verify boot date

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:41:31 GMT

try
uptime

Bill

Re: verify boot date

Pete Randall — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:00:24 GMT

You can also do a "ps -ef | grep init"

Pete

Re: verify boot date

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:46:11 GMT

Hi,

The last boot command can be deceptive because it's the creation date of wtmp & it's not recreated every boot.

Determining from syslog can be problematic if it's being trimmed in any way.

I like the who -b the best, but Pete's solution is just as reliable & creative as well.

Rgds,
Jeff