Installation date ?

[David Kelly]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:18:50AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> Look at the date of the kernel in /boot. That was the time it was last 
> updated. You can use "uname -a" to find which version and also when it 
> was compiled.

Thought there was once an option in ls to show birth/creation date of a
file. stat(1) does the job, so "stat /var" to see when /var was created
which is probably the same time as the system was installed. Assuming
the system clock was correct during the operation.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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