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

[Klaus Wolf <klaus@linuxwolf.de>]

hi,

perhaps this may be a way: Evolution will create a wellcome-post after
first startup.

Klaus

Am Samstag, den 27.08.2011, 23:23 -0700 schrieb
gnubayonne-debian451@yahoo.com:
> >i don't know how to say this without sounding like a smart ass, so i'm
> 
> >going to sound like a smart ass:
> >why does it matter?
> 
> lol, but some of us are inordinately nostalgic and sentiMENTAL.
> 
> I'd look at the ctimes of some of the main directories like /var, /bin or /usr. 
> Most system files reflect when they were created/edited by the developers or 
> maintainers, but from looking at a couple of my systems those directories seem 
> to get created when the system is installed. In older versions of debian root 
> would get an email from the install process and a file or 2 would get created in 
> /root/, but that doesnt seem to happen anymore.
> 
>