According to http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/shutdown-linux-server/, if we run ‘last’ we should be able to see the shutdown events.

Submitted on 11 March 2011 at 10:58

On 11 March 2011 at 11:02 Eelco Dolstra commented:

“last -x” does show shutdowns:

[eelco@disabn:~]$ last -x shutdown 
shutdown system down  2.6.32.29        Mon Mar  7 17:49 - 17:49  (00:00)    
shutdown system down  2.6.32.29        Sun Feb 27 13:46 - 13:47  (00:00)    
shutdown system down  2.6.32.29        Sun Feb 27 13:30 - 13:33  (00:02)    

wtmp begins Sun Feb 27 12:56:46 2011

On 11 March 2011 at 11:02 Eelco Dolstra closed this issue.

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