reboot

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

or, the old-fashioned 'last' command to see who was logged in when it rebooted.....





On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 07:50:50AM -0400, Paul Melson wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 07:02:26AM -0400, Marcel Kunath wrote:
> > my system rebooted.
> > 
> > how do I find out why it rebooted? I like to know if it crashed or was forced
> > by a person to do so. any possible way to do so?
> 
> 	Check /var/log/messages for kernel messages.
> 	If the reboot was done correctly (Ctrl-Alt-Del
> 	or /sbin/reboot) you'll see a line like this:
> 
> Mar 26 00:13:58 kubist init: Switching to runlevel: 6
> 
> 	Although, in RedHat, it looks more like this:
> 
> May  1 10:08:36 bigdaddy exiting on signal 15
> 
> 	If it was a kernel panic or hard boot or 
> 	something of that sort, the system won't 
> 	have switched runlevels, so there won't be 
> 	an init entry.  There may be other useful 
> 	kernel output, though, so make an educated 
> 	guess at when the machine was rebooted
> 	(based on `uptime`) and see what's in the
> 	log file.  
> 
> 
> 
> PaulM
> 
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