Is there a way to find out when the system was shut down?

[Joshua Goi]

Hi,

Is there a way to find out when the system was last shut down? Is there a log file that will tell me that? Thanks!

[A. Clay Stephenson]

/etc/shutdownlog

[Jeff Schussele]

Ditto...

/etc/shutdownlog
You can usually also infer shutdown time from the *last* entry in
/var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log
...but not always because the possibility exists that the syslogd daemon *could* have hung.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Gregory Fruth]

The command "last reboot" will show when the
machine was rebooted. Perhaps that will help?

[Paul_481]

Hi,

also check the last entry of /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log

This file is renamed from /var/adm/syslog.log after every reboot.

regds,
paul

[MarkSyder]

who -b

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Peter Godron]

Joshua,
"uptime" will tell you how long the machine has been running since last reboot.
Regards

[Gordon Morrison]

In addition to all the above, look at /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log (and OLDsyslog.log if there is one)