Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 21:32:28 +1030 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 15 January 2016, Andrew R Paterson sent: > > How about the creation date of /etc/redhat-release > > Works for me! > > Doesn't work for me, so you can't guarantee it'll work for others, >

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

Allegedly, on or about 15 January 2016, Andrew R Paterson sent: > How about the creation date of /etc/redhat-release > Works for me! Doesn't work for me, so you can't guarantee it'll work for others, either. That file comes from the fedora-release RPM package, which has already been shown to

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

Allegedly, on or about 16 January 2016, Bob Marcan sent: > What about /root/initial-setup-ks.cfg or /root/anaconda-ks.cfg ? > I belive it is created at the installation time. I've already suggest them, and others have suggested at least one of them, too. However, there is one potential problem

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > > # rpm -qi fedora-release > > Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator > of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show > you the

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 09:07:52PM +, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > > --- snip --- > > > > Obviously most of that is pre-release, but some of it is post. > How about when the root filesystem was created? > ls -alct /|tail -1|awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On 01/16/2016 01:07 PM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: How about when the root filesystem was created? This works fine if and only if you haven't upgraded from a previous version. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On 14/01/16 17:43, Kevin Wilson wrote: Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly on the machine when it was installed)? # rpm -qi fedora-release Name: fedora-release Version : 22

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/2016 05:34 AM, Christopher Ross wrote: > > On 14/01/16 17:43, Kevin Wilson wrote: >> Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was >> installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set >> correctly on the

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 17:47 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:43:12 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was > > installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set > > correctly > > on the

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:43:12 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was > installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly > on the machine when it was installed)? rpm -qa --last|tail -10 That's the ten

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > # rpm -qi fedora-release Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show you the installation date, you are better off looking for some

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On 01/15/2016 10:15 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: dumpe2fs on the root filesystem also works, if the filesystem has been formatted at 1st install time. That's true if and only if you always do a clean install, never an upgrade. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:24:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > > dumpe2fs on the root filesystem also works, if the filesystem has > > been formatted at 1st install time. > > That's true if and only if you always do a clean install, never an upgrade. Well, upgrades don't reformat the root fs. If you

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:36:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > rpm -qa --last|tail -10 > > That's fine as long as Fedora was clean installed and not updated from > a previous version. The OP didn't say this explicitly. And it isn't fine either, if the installation is from a Live medium. Then

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > > # rpm -qi fedora-release > > Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator > of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show > you the

Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

Hello all, Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly on the machine when it was installed)? Regards, Kevin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

I usually check the mtime on /root/anaconda-ks.cfg. On 14/01/16 12:43 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was > installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly > on the machine when it was installed)? > >