> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can't, in general. By the time the boot loader starts, all knowledge > > of past boots is gone, unless specific counter-measures were put in place. > > > > However, if root is UFS and read/write in your box, it will be unclean on > > anything but a clean shutdown/reboot. If it's read-only, ZFS or NFS > > mounted, then you can't use this method. > > > > If you have UEFI, you can set a UEFI variable on shutdown and clear it on > > boot. If it's not there on boot, you had an unclean shutdown. You could do > > the same with a file in a r/w filesystem that doesn't record clean/unclean > > (like ZFS or NFS). > > > > Locally, we have hacks to IPMI to record kernel crashes in the IPMI log, > > but that's kinda specific to the BMC we have on our boards... > > > > Warner > > > > I see. Thanks for the quick reply. > I guess I can add a dummy file somewhere that I delete in a shutdown hook.
utmp has one attempt at keeping track of this by recording a shutdown record. > > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Johannes Lundberg <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> In the boot process on my test machines I'd like to do different things > >> depending on the last run was a clean shutdown or kernel panic. Where/How > >> can I get this information? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> _______________________________________________ > >> [email protected] mailing list > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected] > >> " > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
