HPUX version when installed

[Susanto Hartono]

Hi

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

thanks

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

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~

[Donald Kok]

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

[Susanto Hartono]

Thanks guy both answers are correct.

[Cheryl Griffin]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I use:

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

Regards!

...JRF...