Script to guess Red Hat machine's build date.

Querying RPM for the installation date of the basesystem package should
provide a decent approximation of the date the machine was (re)built.

diff --git a/opt/Linux/bin/redhat_build_date b/opt/Linux/bin/redhat_build_date
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..aa234b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/opt/Linux/bin/redhat_build_date
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use POSIX qw(strftime);
+my $date = `rpm -q --queryformat='%{INSTALLTIME}\n' basesystem`;
+printf strftime("%Y-%m-%d\n", localtime $date);