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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:38:21 -0800
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <20110113203821.GA3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com>
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Quoth David Demelier on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
> Hello folks,
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> I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date.=
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> We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD=20
> kernel is possible.
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> I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system can=20
> helps but which one?
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> markand@Melon ~ $ ls -l /root/.cshrc
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel  798 19 Jul 04:17 /root/.cshrc
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> It seems that this file has the FreeBSD dist access time so can't refers=
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> to neither.
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> Do you have any clue?
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> Cheers,
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> --=20
> David Demelier
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The date on the /home symlink reflects my install date.  I don't think
anything would touch that.

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