On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 6/15/07, Hiep Nguyen <hiep at ee.ucr.edu> wrote: >> hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos >> installed? > > rpm -qa --last | tail -n 1 > > This will give you the first package installed and the time it was > installed, which should be the date the system was stood up. > The options for my 4.4 install listed the package, but no date/time stamp. rpm -qi centos-release showed dates well beyond when I knew I installed the system. I performed a check of /boot and discovered memtest86+-1.70 with a date most likely when the system truly installed. I'm looking forward to other responses. A good question! Scott