[gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Vernon A. Fort]

With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm 
-qi basesystem.  I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would 
like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured.  Any pointers?

Vernon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:36:59 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote:

> With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm 
> -qi basesystem.  I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would 
> like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured.  Any pointers?

head /var/log/emerge.log should do it, unless you logrotated it.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Nick Rout]

emerge genlop
genlop -l | head

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:36:59 -0500
Vernon A. Fort wrote:

> With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm 
> -qi basesystem.  I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would 
> like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured.  Any pointers?
> 
> Vernon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:04:41PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> emerge genlop
> genlop -l | head
> 

actually, this is exactly the same as just typing 

head /var/log/emerge.log

genlop is an emerge.log parser after-all. So both suffers the same
deficiency that if you logrotate emerge.log, then you lose the
information. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 22:35 -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:04:41PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > emerge genlop
> > genlop -l | head
> > 
> 
> actually, this is exactly the same as just typing 
> 
> head /var/log/emerge.log
> 
> genlop is an emerge.log parser after-all. So both suffers the same
> deficiency that if you logrotate emerge.log, then you lose the
> information. 

all true i guess, i don't logrotate mine for that very reason.

> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 22:36, Vernon A. Fort wrote:
> With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm
> -qi basesystem.  I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would
> like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured.  Any pointers?
>
> Vernon

have a look into /etc?

Some of the files there got created but never change, so you may be lucky...

hm, I installed this box december 2002....? wow...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 07:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 September 2005 22:36, Vernon A. Fort wrote:
> > With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm
> > -qi basesystem.  I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would
> > like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured.  Any pointers?
> >
> > Vernon
> 
> have a look into /etc?
> 
> Some of the files there got created but never change, so you may be lucky...
> 
> hm, I installed this box december 2002....? wow...

Bingo! me too. The 5th actually :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:32:10 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> have a look into /etc?
> 
> Some of the files there got created but never change, so you may be
> lucky...

And some of them come from tarballs so have the original creation date on
the author's machine. i have files in /etc that date back to before I
bought this computer.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:02, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:32:10 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > have a look into /etc?
> >
> > Some of the files there got created but never change, so you may be
> > lucky...
>
> And some of them come from tarballs so have the original creation date on
> the author's machine. i have files in /etc that date back to before I
> bought this computer.

yeah, you are right

but I searched a little bit around, I have even older files then the stuff 
in /etc -  lost&found from may 2002 (hm, when I bought my new harddisk, that 
seems to be correct ;) ) 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:05:57 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> but I searched a little bit around, I have even older files then the
> stuff in /etc -  lost&found from may 2002 (hm, when I bought my new
> harddisk, that seems to be correct ;) ) 

emerge.log seems to be the safest. That ties in nicely with my credit
card records for when I bought this computer and my laptop.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Thursday 08 September 2005 19:36, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:05:57 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > but I searched a little bit around, I have even older files then the
> > stuff in /etc -  lost&found from may 2002 (hm, when I bought my new
> > harddisk, that seems to be correct ;) )
>
> emerge.log seems to be the safest. That ties in nicely with my credit
> card records for when I bought this computer and my laptop.

hm, emerge.log had been removed in 2003 to save some space - so it does not 
tell me much about the first installation date ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

[Ian Clowes]

"Vernon A. Fort" wrote:
> 
> With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm
> -qi basesystem.  I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would
> like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured.  Any pointers?


Hi

Possibly a little empirical, but on things like the mod date on the root
lost+found directory and the first few lines of /var/log/emerge.log come
to mind.

IanC
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