Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
On 2010-01-31, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: --3gk1bTGVZuaU9V5/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jeffrey Cao: On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: =20 A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: =20 $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created Filesystem created: Mon Jul 6 09:01:20 2009 =20 (Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in the morning? Must have been on vacation.) =20 It sounds good, but when I run this command on my notebook, it says: Filesystem created: Thu Feb 19 05:38:52 2009 I can't believe it's 5:38 in the morning when I installed my system. I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know about yours. That makes sense. My time zone is +8, so it's 13:38. That's right. Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: --YzdYn+D7cUqe+VA3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mike Iowa: =20 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created Filesystem created: Mon Jul 6 09:01:20 2009 (Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in the morning? Must have been on vacation.) It sounds good, but when I run this command on my notebook, it says: Filesystem created: Thu Feb 19 05:38:52 2009 I can't believe it's 5:38 in the morning when I installed my system. Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
Jeffrey Cao: On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created Filesystem created: Mon Jul 6 09:01:20 2009 (Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in the morning? Must have been on vacation.) It sounds good, but when I run this command on my notebook, it says: Filesystem created: Thu Feb 19 05:38:52 2009 I can't believe it's 5:38 in the morning when I installed my system. I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know about yours. J. -- My drug of choice is self-pity. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:55:30 -0500 (EST), Jochen Schulz wrote: I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know about yours. Maybe it's not an hour off. Have you taken Daylight Saving Time into account? For example, the US Eastern Time zone is five hours behind GMT in the winter, but only four hours behind GMT in the summer. What time of year was it at that time? What time zone offset was in effect then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
Stephen Powell: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:55:30 -0500 (EST), Jochen Schulz wrote: I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know about yours. Maybe it's not an hour off. Sorry, english is not my first language. What I meant was that when my root partition was formatted, my local time only differed from UTC by one hour. J. -- If you do not move for long enough, you might see a rat. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:37:14 -0500 (EST), Jochen Schulz wrote: Sorry, english is not my first language. What I meant was that when my root partition was formatted, my local time only differed from UTC by one hour. Oh. What I thought you meant was If I assume that the time value reported on the screen is UTC, and I convert it to my local time, it only differs from the time I actually did my install by one hour. Now perhaps you understand the reference to Daylight Saving Time, and how that might account for the difference. Actually your English is quite good compared to some of the posts I've seen. Some of them are so bad I literally cannot figure out what they are trying to say. This, on the other hand, is a simple misunderstanding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:14:30 -0600, Mike Iowa wrote: I have done extensive searches and have found no answers for finding out the following information from Debian systems. 1. I would like to be able to tell when a package was installed. Far from perfect, but you can get some info under /var/lib/dpkg/info/ *.list. Quick example: I installed mail-notification, but when? s...@stt008:~$ ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list -lh | grep mail-notification -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,4K nov 15 17:23 /var/lib/dpkg/info/mail- notification.list That shows November 15th at 17:23. 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. The bootloader creation filestamp can help. s...@stt008:/boot/grub$ ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4888 nov 14 20:21 /boot/grub/menu.lst (...) Preferably it would work with the base installation of any Debian system. I would like it to be more concrete than a file or directory listing. Given that can change for any number of reasons. Yep, looking up files timestamps it's not bullet-proof but in some scenarios can be a bit useful :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
Mike Iowa: 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created Filesystem created: Mon Jul 6 09:01:20 2009 (Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in the morning? Must have been on vacation.) J. -- When I am doing sex I wonder if my emotions can be detected by alien civilisations. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
I have done extensive searches and have found no answers for finding out the following information from Debian systems. 1. I would like to be able to tell when a package was installed. 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. If this is not possible (as I have been told thus far) that is fine. However, if there is a way it needs to work on most every Debian system and to not require special packages to have been installed. In addition I have found that there are some systems that have log files such as /var/log/base-config.log.1 (Deb 3.1) that were created when the system was installed and even have captures of the installation screens, but this is not uniform across Debian versions (none of my Deb 4.0 have it). Preferably it would work with the base installation of any Debian system. I would like it to be more concrete than a file or directory listing. Given that can change for any number of reasons. Thanks, Mike
Re: How To determine the date the system packages were installed.
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:14:30 -0500 (EST), Mike Iowa wrote: I have done extensive searches and have found no answers for finding out the following information from Debian systems. 1. I would like to be able to tell when a package was installed. 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. If this is not possible (as I have been told thus far) that is fine. However, if there is a way it needs to work on most every Debian system and to not require special packages to have been installed. In addition I have found that there are some systems that have log files such as /var/log/base-config.log.1 (Deb 3.1) that were created when the system was installed and even have captures of the installation screens, but this is not uniform across Debian versions (none of my Deb 4.0 have it). Preferably it would work with the base installation of any Debian system. I would like it to be more concrete than a file or directory listing. Given that can change for any number of reasons. Well, I'm far from an expert on this, Mike, but just in poking around in the files on my system for the last half hour, this is what I've come up with. There are files on the system of the form /var/log/dpkg.* The newest one is called dpkg.log, the one before that is called dpkg.log.1, and the ones before that are called dpkg.log.2.gz, dpkg.log.3.gz, etc. If they are all still there, the oldest one would tell you when the system was installed. However, I believe that a cron job somewhere is programmed to keep only so many of these files. Eventually, the oldest one will be deleted. If you still have the oldest one, it will say startup archives install install base-files none 5.0.0 (or something along those lines) in the first two records. There are date and time stamps for every state transition of every package along the way. They are in chronological order, except that you may see the effects of a time zone change after locales is installed. For example, I have my system clock set to GMT. The entries prior to locales are in GMT. After locales is installed, they revert to local time. All package installation methods (synaptic, aptitude, apt, etc., eventually filter down to a dpkg command; so this would appear to capture it all. Hope this helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
