topic Re: HPUX version when installed in Operating System - HP-UX

HPUX version when installed

Susanto Hartono — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:00:02 GMT

Hi

does anybody know how to find out when the O/s system was installed in a HPUX machine

thanks

Re: HPUX version when installed

Michael Tully — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:06:50 GMT

Hi,

If you've created an ignite tape (make_tape_recovery) you just run this command, it will give you this information in the first section, as well as some other useful information.

# /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest |more

HTH
~Michael~

Re: HPUX version when installed

Donald Kok — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:12:59 GMT

you can have a clue by looking at files in /stand. For Instance bootconf, lost+found, kernrel which are on my systems the date of installation. However I can imagine that a major patch will update these files.

The links in / are on my system made on the installationdate (/bin -> /usr/bin, /lib -> /usr/lib). The same for the /usr filesystem.

HTH
Donald

Re: HPUX version when installed

Susanto Hartono — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:31:47 GMT

Thanks guy both answers are correct.

Re: HPUX version when installed

Cheryl Griffin — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:09:46 GMT

Here's another way using swlist.
The operating system is made up of several filesets which any subset of these filesets can be updated by reinstalling, by patch or by installing related software products. This makes it difficult to look at one fileset to determine the installation date of the operating system.

By looking at the output from this command, you can establish when the operating system was installed. Look for the earliest date which is normally the date most often recorded:
# swlist -l fileset -a date >/tmp/check_date

Compare this to the dates you might have gathered from other methods mentioned in this thread and you can confirm the date.

Cheers,
Cheryl Griffin

Re: HPUX version when installed

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:10:10 GMT

Hi:

I use:

# swlist -l fileset -a date|grep -i os-core

Regards!

...JRF...