Date of a FreeBSD installation

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
> > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to
> > query the date the machine was built):
> > 
> > 	ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> 
> I gather that you don't ever run mergemaster, which would update this file?
> My machine installed in 2001 has a Dec 2010 date for that file:
> 
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  36037 Dec  1 14:13 /etc/defaults/rc.conf

Exactly that was my thought. Maybe a file that is NOT subject
to one of the system upgrade procedures would be better? Maybe
something in /boot?

% ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  34300 Aug 24  2008 /etc/defaults/rc.conf
% ls -l /boot/defaults/loader.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  19426 Aug 24  2008 /boot/defaults/loader.conf

No, forget about that, also nonsense, looks to new...




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