From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDGwk-000398-Rm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:35:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j887VGDG008896; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:31:16 GMT Received: from dbmail-mx2.orcon.net.nz (loadbalancer2.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j887QC8c005268 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:26:13 GMT Received: from sf.rout.dyndns.org (60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [60.234.144.216]) by dbmail-mx2.orcon.net.nz (8.13.2/8.13.2/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j887dlRt023174 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:39:47 +1200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200509080732.10450.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> References: <431F4F6B.4060302@provident-solutions.com> <200509080732.10450.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:28:19 +1200 Message-Id: <1126164499.10044.8.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/1069/Thu Sep 8 03:08:51 2005 on dbmail-mx2.orcon.net.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: bccdc4bb-e0ab-4c2e-b9d8-704da2c7e294 X-Archives-Hash: 175e2deb908fd10b0c7bfa564790d646 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 :-) -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list