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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:47:32 +0100
From:      David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikoX0wFihE0n=5zr81w3c-Di5vy5W=5-7_C-JQZ@mail.gmail.com>
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2011/1/13 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>:
> 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 kern=
el is possible.
>>
>> I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system can h=
elps but which one?
>
>
> Symlinks under /etc are a good choice:
>
> # cd /etc ; ls -ltr | head
> total 1242
> lrwxrwxrwx =C2=A01 root =C2=A0wheel =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 23 May 26=
 =C2=A02001 termcap@ -> /usr/share/misc/termcap
> lrwxrwxrwx =C2=A01 root =C2=A0wheel =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 13 May 26=
 =C2=A02001 rmt@ -> /usr/sbin/rmt
>
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck
>
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markand@Melon ~ $ cd /etc ; ls -ltr | head
total 612
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 19 Jul 04:16 zfs
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 19 Jul 04:16 skel

Same that my original post. I have not installed FreeBSD on July but
as Chip says the /home symlink is a pretty good choice :-)

Thanks

--=20
Demelier David



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