write pc uptime in a file in shutdown

Question

I need to log PC uptime. How I can do this?

I use uptime for this and I will when ubuntu is shutdown write this command output in a file.

Answer 1

If you are using Ubuntu

then add below lines in "/etc/rc0.d/S60umountroot" at the beginning.

Log="/var/log/uptime.log"
echo "$(date) $(/usr/bin/uptime)" >> "${Log}"

or you can simply use logger

logger "UPTIME: $(uptime)"

then it will gives details in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages

Note :- Please careful edit this file

If you are using CentOs, then do the same in "/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt", but note that it should be added in beginning of the file.