From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 28 15:16:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9B616A401 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8DB13C4A6 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:16:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1671060nfc for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:16:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Dhv7pZuKt/2sBcySHGswsia0o7lU7A8ecIGiR7P9qm6eTpT/u/4zBH89feQgE1jwEm2lZXSUUoNjN2jRbTxbpzdza+Xtq+50oz4NaL0Qy5AJd9sS+lj7VoptlI2aqNQDO/vG2SSMTPPS9c/88z9GtGm4W+RTxEwTQQBspWejFbs= Received: by 10.82.152.16 with SMTP id z16mr2899823bud.1169997392574; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:16:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.176.4 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:16:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:16:32 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN" In-Reply-To: <638644.2921169970382255.JavaMail.root@shoemasters.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <638644.2921169970382255.JavaMail.root@shoemasters.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: original install date birth date X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:16:35 -0000 On 28/01/07, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN verquaecan: > > i have been running a bsd system since version 4 > something it has been up now for 372 days. I have > done make world on it several times and am woun- > dering how to find out the exact day i booted it and > installed the os. > sysinstall usually puts some lines like: # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Feb 10 17:39:11 2006 # Created: Fri Feb 10 17:39:11 2006 in /etc/rc.conf. Another file that rarely gets touched is /etc/resolv.conf, so the date on that one may be useful. Also, the creation dates on your ssh keyfiles, files of the form: /etc/ssh/ssh_host* could date to the building of the system. dr-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Dec 31 1969 dev -- --