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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:27:26 +0000
From:      krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinrUbLfWGMmcddearbpfTjBdknTL-F-FobmJE_C@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110113203456.GA1204@tiny.Sisis.de>
References:  <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> <20110113203456.GA1204@tiny.Sisis.de>

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On 13 January 2011 20:34, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> El d=EDa Thursday, January 13, 2011 a las 09:28:29PM +0100, David Demelie=
r
> escribi=F3:
>
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > markand@Melon ~ $ ls -l /root/.cshrc
> > -rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel  798 19 Jul 04:17 /root/.cshrc
> >
> > It seems that this file has the FreeBSD dist access time so can't refer=
s
> > to neither.
> >
> > Do you have any clue?
>
> I always use for this the oldest installed pkg:
>
> $ ls -lt /var/db/pkg
>
> HIH
>
>        matthias
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no good if packages have been updated



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