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[Ian Derringer]

Hi,
I know this question probably been asked before, but I am desperate and I am going to ask again;
How or where can you go to check if your Linux server has been shutdown by a person or hardware failure?? I found my server was down like someone submit a command such as, shutdown -h now. I am running Linux RHAS 3.0 on HP Itanium "RX4640" server.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

Ian D.

[Nobody's Hero]

Check syslog or /var/messages or messages.1

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Also you can use the last command:

last shutdown
last reboot

And

uptime

Will tell you how long the system has been up and running.