On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 20:01 +0800, Drexx Laggui [personal] wrote: > 10Dec2007 (UTC +8) > > On 12/10/07, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm just after the install date. > > 'cat /proc/version' will give you the same output as "uname -a". The > installation date is shown there.
Caveat: /proc/version and `uname -a` provide you with the build date of the kernel you are running. On systems where the kernel was upgraded after the installation was done, this will not be an accurate measure of the server's install date. Perhaps a more appropriate approach will be to try to find the change date of the oldest system file (user files may have been extracted from a tarball, inheriting the original timestamp... which while also possible on system files is probably not as common). Again this isn't fool proof, but it may be a bit more accurate when the kernel has been modified. -- Federico Sevilla III F S 3 Consulting Inc. http://www.fs3.ph
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