Centos is like RedHat therefore check the time stamp of /etc/issue or /etc/motd. However, you should know that the date may be inaccurate if the installer did not set the time and date correctly when he/she installed the operating system.
On 12/11/07, Winelfred G. Pasamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hehe, not everyone compiles his/her own kernel during install. > > On Dec 10, 2007 8:16 PM, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > -- > Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto > you. > > Winelfred G. Pasamba > Adventist University of the Philippines Online Information Systems > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- --- Kelsey Hartigan Go Registered Linux user #5998
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