Centos is like RedHat therefore check the time stamp of /etc/issue or
/etc/motd.
However, you should know that the date may be inaccurate if the installer
did not set the time and date correctly when he/she installed the operating
system.



On 12/11/07, Winelfred G. Pasamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hehe, not everyone compiles his/her own kernel during install.
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 8:16 PM, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 20:01 +0800, Drexx Laggui [personal] wrote:
> > > 10Dec2007 (UTC +8)
> > >
> > > On 12/10/07, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I'm just after the install date.
> > >
> > > 'cat /proc/version' will give you the same output as "uname -a". The
> > > installation date is shown there.
> >
> > Caveat: /proc/version and `uname -a` provide you with the build date of
> > the kernel you are running. On systems where the kernel was upgraded
> > after the installation was done, this will not be an accurate measure of
> > the server's install date.
> >
> > Perhaps a more appropriate approach will be to try to find the change
> > date of the oldest system file (user files may have been extracted from
> > a tarball, inheriting the original timestamp... which while also
> > possible on system files is probably not as common). Again this isn't
> > fool proof, but it may be a bit more accurate when the kernel has been
> > modified.
> >
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