Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> > Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?
> Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly very
> first time (not counting reboots)? - John

well uptime will tell most recent boot,

not exactly what you asked, but the log files in /var/log/installer can 
tell you when the current o/s was installed

if you mean when the hardware was first booted, there might be something 
in /sys or maybe somewhere in BIOS PRAM, but that's almost certainly 
motherboard-specific.

Miles Fidelman

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