Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation (Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I first installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com | http://chipstips.com
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