Server not reporting last reboot?

[Rob Williams]

Hey all,

Just for fun, I wanted to see when the last reboot was on my server, but was surprised to see nothing at all was listed.

root@pixel [~]# last reboot

wtmp begins Tue Aug  1 11:43:31 2006

Is there a specific reason for this? It reports 60d uptime, but has been going since March. Just curious if this is something I should look into, or to just leave it?

Thanks!

[Patrick]

Do you have any cron jobs that clean the wtmp logs?

[Rob Williams]

To be honest, I really have no clue.

24 2 * * * /scripts/upcp
0 1 * * * /scripts/cpbackup
*/15 * * * * /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/dnsqueue > /dev/null 2>&1
2,58 * * * * /usr/local/bandmin/bandmin
0 0 * * * /usr/local/bandmin/ipaddrmap
0 6 * * * /scripts/exim_tidydb > /dev/null 2>&1
16 21 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/cpaddons_report.pl --notify
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumon >/dev/null 2>&1

Could be one of those Cpanel scripts doing it I suppose. I will have to look into them. I find it odd that the wtmp would ever need to be cleaned though...

[Patrick]

have you checked the contents of: /etc/
cron.daily/ cron.hourly/ cron.monthly/ cron.weekly/