Topic: Install date - recover for audit

[StuC]

I know this is going to be stupid question but I trust you lot more than I trust my own rooting around in the file system "in a hurry"

How do I find when the Current SME server was first installed?
I need to know for an audit from our (new) American parent company.

thanks for any help, googling just brings up too much info for the usual "Install date Linux" or similar searches

many thanks

Stu C

[CharlieBrady]

How do I find when the Current SME server was first installed?

Read your sysadmin log book. Oh, you don't have one of those? Try:

ls -l /root/install.log

[StuC]

Point Taken about the Logbook.
I was not offically looking after this stuff from day 1 in fact nobody was, I only ended up being any kind of sysadmin due to the "temporary couple-of-week fix" of SME server working so well and the company growing from four people  to a point where someone got the hat.

Thanks for the command and for all things SME, this forum in particular.

I expect our SME server will have to go now as it does not have "icrosof" in its name and besides if we are not paying thousands in licensing it cant be a "real server OS" can it.
Sorry came over a bit "US" for a second there.

[CharlieBrady]

... and besides if we are not paying thousands in licensing it cant be a "real server OS" can it.

contribs.org will happily accept the license fee if that will help. And you'd be helping to ensure the continued support of the OS (which is what license fees should be for, right?).