On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:12:04PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > I'm running Debian 8.6, and looking at old logs. I'd like to confirm when > the system was rebooted to invoke the newer kernel which fixed > the Dirty COW bug.
last | grep boot or, apparently (according to the man page): last reboot > If I have a complete > copy of my /var/log from last October, Urghhh. So it's not on a live system? It's on a chrooted disk image? Then I think you need to use: last -f /some/path/wtmp reboot where /some/path/wtmp is the location of your chrooted disk image's wtmp file.