Re: When was Debian installed

[Tomas Volka <Tom85@pilsfree.net>]

Quoting Jari Fredriksson <jarif@iki.fi>:

> 8.10.2011 4:09, Mark Panen kirjoitti:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS?

There are several fairly reliable methods to figure this out,
one of them is checking the last password change of certain system
user (daemon, sys, bin).

ie.

root@debian # passwd -S bin
bin L 11/23/2010 0 99999 7 -1

Another way is to check the creation time of the root filesystems.

ie.

root@debian ~ # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda3 | grep -i creat
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem created:       Tue Nov 23 21:11:56 2010

HTH,
Tom