topic Last Command in Operating System - Linux

Last Command

Qcheck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:37:19 GMT

What does "down" in the last command represents?

Re: Last Command

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:57:53 GMT

An example of what you are seeing would be helpful.

When I execute the "last" command on my SuSE servers, I don't see anything that says "down".

Re: Last Command

Matt Palmer_2 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:25:46 GMT

Hi,

down or shutdown represents the last time that the server was shutdown, ie:

$ last -x|grep shutdown | head -1
Output:

shutdown system down 2.6.15.4 Sun Apr 30 13:31 - 15:08 (01:37)

source:http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-last-reboot-time-and-date-find-out.html

Hope that helps

regards

Matt