how to check if shutdown/halt has been executed

Fri Nov 12 13:24:17 UTC 2010

yes it´s avaliable but I don´t see anything about the shutdown :-(

Greetings,

ESG

2010/11/12 hike <mh1272 at gmail.com>

> isn't the last command still available in RHEL?
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:27 AM, ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think something put the finger in the power, because  I don´t get any
> log
> > in messages or other file.
> >
> > Now I´m going to investigate who has made that without telling nothing
> > :-(((
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ESG
> >
> > 2010/11/11 Dennis Comeaux <dennis.comeaux at gmail.com>
> >
> > > Have you tried /var/log/messages?  I have notes in there about Kernel
> > > logging stopping when it goes down.  If someone just gave the machine
> the
> > > finger (hit the power button and held it down so it went down without
> an
> > > ACPI poweroff call), then you won't have anything.  I think it may also
> > be
> > > recorded in /var/log/daemon.log on some installs.  However WHO
> requested
> > it
> > > may or may not be.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:05 AM, ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I have arrived today at work and I have found a RHEL 5 server
> poweroff.
> > > >
> > > > I want to know what has happened. So, I first want to know if someone
> > has
> > > > executed shutdown/halt/poweroff or any other command that can power
> off
> > > the
> > > > machine,
> > > >
> > > > I have checked the messages file but I cant see nothing:
> > > >
> > > > Nov  4 12:24:34 www smartd[2097]: In the system's table of devices NO
> > > > devices found to scan
> > > > Nov  4 12:24:34 www smartd[2097]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
> > > > Nov  4 12:24:34 www smartd[2099]: smartd has fork()ed into background
> > > mode.
> > > > New PID=2099.
> > > > Nov  5 09:20:01 www syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > > > Nov  5 09:20:02 www kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
> > started.
> > > >
> > > > at 09:20 I restart the machine.
> > > >
> > > > With the sar command I see this:
> > > >
> > > > 06:40:02 AM       all      0.10      0.00      0.08      0.48
>  0.01
> > > > 99.33
> > > > 06:50:01 AM       all      0.11      0.00      0.07      0.36
>  0.01
> > > > 99.45
> > > > 07:00:01 AM       all      0.13      0.00      0.07      0.80
>  0.01
> > > > 98.98
> > > > Average:          all      0.12      0.00      0.07      0.80
>  0.01
> > > > 98.99
> > > >
> > > > 09:19:48 AM       LINUX RESTART
> > > >
> > > > 09:30:01 AM       CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait
>  %steal
> > > > %idle
> > > > 09:40:01 AM       all      0.60      0.00      0.11      5.57
>  0.01
> > > > 93.71
> > > >
> > > > So between 07:00 and 07:10 the system  goes down, but WHY???
> > > >
> > > > with the ausearch command I get this:
> > > >
> > > > ----
> > > > time->Fri Nov  5 07:01:01 2010
> > > > type=CRED_ACQ msg=audit(1288936861.670:3707): user pid=9601 uid=0
> > > > auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: setcred acct="root" : exe="/usr/sbin/crond"
> > > > (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
> > > > ----
> > > > time->Fri Nov  5 07:01:01 2010
> > > > type=LOGIN msg=audit(1288936861.670:3708): login pid=9601 uid=0 old
> > > > auid=4294967295 new auid=0
> > > > ----
> > > > time->Fri Nov  5 07:01:01 2010
> > > > type=USER_START msg=audit(1288936861.720:3709): user pid=9601 uid=0
> > > auid=0
> > > > msg='PAM: session open acct="root" : exe="/usr/sbin/crond"
> (hostname=?,
> > > > addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
> > > > ----
> > > > time->Fri Nov  5 07:01:01 2010
> > > > type=CRED_DISP msg=audit(1288936861.730:3710): user pid=9601 uid=0
> > auid=0
> > > > msg='PAM: setcred acct="root" : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" (hostname=?,
> > > addr=?,
> > > > terminal=cron res=success)'
> > > > ----
> > > > time->Fri Nov  5 07:01:01 2010
> > > > type=USER_END msg=audit(1288936861.730:3711): user pid=9601 uid=0
> > auid=0
> > > > msg='PAM: session close acct="root" : exe="/usr/sbin/crond"
> > (hostname=?,
> > > > addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
> > > > ----
> > > > time->Fri Nov  5 09:20:00 2010
> > > > type=DAEMON_START msg=audit(1288945200.613:9651): auditd start,
> > > ver=1.7.17
> > > > format=raw kernel=2.6.18.8-xen auid=4294967295 pid=1440 res=success
> > > > ----
> > > >
> > > > If the systems goes down because of power failure or something
> strange,
> > > is
> > > > there any way to check it?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > ESG
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