On 13 April 2011 11:41, waqar afridi <afridi.waqar at gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any method through which I can Detect that the System was recently > shutdown or Restarted? "uptime" will tell you how long it's been up. alan at bishop:~$ uptime 11:49:12 up 56 days, 13:50, 5 users, load average: 0.19, 0.24, 0.26 Al.