Shutdown log location?

[citizen]

Where might I find my shutdown logs, and how far back would my system have them if it's never been messed with?

[Snowhog]

Click on the Desktop and type: KSystemLog

[citizen]

Thank you, but not finding anything from the last shutdown. Is it possible that my system does not keep any?

[oshunluvr]

Thank you, but not finding anything from the last shutdown. Is it possible that my system does not keep any?

Nothing can be logged after the file systems are unmounted.

This will show you when you shutdown:

last -5 reboot shutdown root

You'll get a list of the last five shutdown times and the uptime.

Then, using that date/time, look in /var/log at the syslog files. "syslog" is current, syslog.1 is the previous, and earlier ones will be syslog.2.gz, etc. Those ending in gz are archives and you would have to extract them before reading them. Usually, syslog.1 will contain whatever was logged last session.

However, the stuff that scrolls down the screen when you shutdown is mostly not logged. This might help: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ring-power-off

[GreyGeek]

Where might I find my shutdown logs, and how far back would my system have them if it's never been messed with?

Journalctl has an extensive tool set for that.
https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...e-systemd-logs