Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:36:14 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <BF2F84C5-AB13-4FE1-AB43-AD965E21980E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> References: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com>
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On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, David Demelier wrote: > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is possible. > > I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system can helps but which one? Symlinks under /etc are a good choice: # cd /etc ; ls -ltr | head total 1242 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 23 May 26 2001 termcap@ -> /usr/share/misc/termcap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 13 May 26 2001 rmt@ -> /usr/sbin/rmt Regards, -- -Chuck
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