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

2011-08-28 Thread gnubayonne-debian...@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

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

2011-08-28 Thread Klaus Wolf
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-debian...@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

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

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? uptime is a good indicator. The uprecords package provides recordkeeping and does all the math for you. An example of uprecords output is at http://ursamundi.org/cgi-bin/uprecords.cgi

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

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
/var/log/installer/hardware-summary look at the first line That's looks right, cannot find a date older than that. Jun 11 also look at the modify time for /etc/issue Modified time is newer. - Aug 1 -- Kind regards, Yudi

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

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/08/11 23:44, yudi v wrote: /var/log/installer/hardware-summary look at the first line That's looks right, cannot find a date older than that. Jun 11 also look at the modify time for /etc/issue Modified time is newer.� - Aug 1 That (issue) could have been updated after

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

2011-08-28 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:16 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: 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? I recently started doing system logbooks for my system to chronicle events in the life of my

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

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? -- Kind regards, Yudi

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

2011-08-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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

2011-08-27 Thread shawn wilson
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com 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

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

2011-08-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
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

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

2011-08-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, 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

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

2011-08-27 Thread shawn wilson
On Aug 27, 2011 1:26 PM, Ivan Shmakov i...@gray.siamics.net wrote: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, 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

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

2011-08-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Aug 27, 2011 1:26 PM, Ivan Shmakov i...@gray.siamics.net wrote: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: […] Does uptime do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly very first

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

2011-08-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/08/11 00:36, yudi v wrote: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? -- Kind regards, Yudi Maybe...(I'm guessing) /var/log/installer/hardware-summary look at the first line also look at the modify time for /etc/issue Cheers -- You ever noticed how people who believe in

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

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Just to clarify my original post. I want to find out when I installed and booted Debian for the very first time. -- Kind regards, Yudi

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

2011-08-27 Thread Greg Farough
From: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:02:44 +1000 On 28/08/11 00:36, yudi v wrote: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? -- Kind regards, Yudi Maybe...(I'm

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

2011-08-27 Thread shawn wilson
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 21:18, yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify my original post. I want to find out when I installed and booted Debian for the very first time. 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