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upnix
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 Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject: Determining age of a Gentoo Installation |
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Anyone know of a sure way to figure out when a Gentoo system was first booted (install date)?
I'm pretty good at breaking OS installations, making reinstalls a 6 month ritual. But I think I may be on a role with Gentoo here.
My only idea was to look at file-mod times, but they're all over the board and some of them I'm pretty sure are too old.
Ideas?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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upnix,
If the hostname has not been changed since install, look at the date on /etc/hostname
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upnix
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, that seems like it could be right; Oct. 4th 2002. Just missed the 1 year anniversary.
Excellent, thanks NeddySeagoon. |
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Gibberx
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I also installed Gentoo about a year ago, but I redid it in the summer because I was really bored, haha  |
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M104
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Check your first entry in /var/log/emerge.log. It should say something like "Started emerge on: Nov 06, 2002"
That's how old my one of my systems is!
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AlyM
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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My /etc/chostname is dated the 9th December 2003  .
Yeah, I screwed up the date setting when first installing.... so I guess teh exact date is lost forever (it was about 6 weeks ago). |
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sgaap
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Started emerge on: Oct 30, 2002
 only a few days to go, didnt knew I was using my last gentoo install for this long
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snakattak3
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | 1055380094: Started emerge on: Jun 12, 2003 01:08:14
1055380094: *** emerge sync |
This is a long time for me. And the only reason I did that in June was becasue I got a new P4 and mobo (had to recompile with new CFLAGS!), and my install before that was probably just as old if not older. Gentoo is awesome 
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beejay
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But how old is an Installation if you updated from Gentoo 1.2 -> 1.4rc1 which is the case for me? - I'm sure that I changed my hostname. A better idea would be to look at the creation date of a directory like "/lib" or "/boot" IMHO.
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