Re: Install date

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

Neal Hogan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Tim Tebbit <ttebbit@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a file generated with a time stamp that would show the age of
>> the current install somewhere?
>>
>>
> 
> /var/log/dmesg
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I don't think so.  My system was installed ages ago, still running
Debian 4.0 and a long listing of that file reports:

$ ls -l /var/log/dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 21654 2010-02-08 12:50 /var/log/dmesg

You might get a good value, give or take, using /etc/debian_version.  On
my system I get:

$ ls -l /etc/debian_version
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2006-10-28 06:20 /etc/debian_version

Which is much closer, if not exact, to what I remember for when I
upgraded to 4.0

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Bob McGowan