topic Re: Server installation date in Operating System - Linux

Server installation date

Qcheck — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:08:46 GMT

How can I tell when was server installed? I mean, is there any way I can tell what is the date of the server installation?

Re: Server installation date

Steven Schweda — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:00:26 GMT

When the (unidentified) server was installed,
or when the (unidentified) OS was installed
on the (unidentified) server?

There are usually some files which are
created when the OS is installed, like, say,
"/etc/hosts". If no one has modified them,
then their date-time values should be good
clues.

Re: Server installation date

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:16:07 GMT

In red hat based distros you have the /root/install.log and /root/anaconda-ks.cfg that could give you the date of your server installation. Check the date and time of these files with ls -la.

Re: Server installation date

Ralph Grothe — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:37:45 GMT

Hi Pratibha,

on RedHattish systems you could try something like this

# perl -le 'print scalar localtime $ARGV[0]' $(rpm --qf %{installtime} -q basesystem)
Tue Aug 14 15:48:40 2007

Re: Server installation date

Elmar P. Kolkman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:49:13 GMT

Other option is to look at your root filesystem and ask for the 'time created' of it...
If it's ext2 or ext3, do:
tune2fs -l

That should be quite clear about installation date...

Re: Server installation date

Qcheck — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:57:18 GMT

Solution has been given from this thread. Thank you everyone.