Re: wtmp

From: Damir Delija (ddelija_at_PUBLIC.SRCE.HR)
Date: 09/27/05

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    > Looking through the contents of wtmp I found we have a lot of reboots
    > without a shutdown. I can account for some of the reboots and these are
    > associated with shutdowns but the others don't fit with any maintenance
    > schedules or records. Is this normal?

    this is not normal..
    can you relate this reboots with any regular patersn or
    events (like cleanig, maintanance operations etc ..)

     I know the reboot in the wtmp is
    > from a pseudo account that logs in when the system starts but I thought
    > there should be a system stop first. Could this be due to power outages
    > which would mean the system stopped but not in a happy way?
    >

    there must be more info in messages (/var/adm/messages )
    about reboots, and related data about system

    dmesg can also show some line from messages
    hardware problems can be seen trough prtdiag
    and iostat -ne

    I hope this helps

    Damir

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