Date of a FreeBSD installation

krad kraduk at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 09:27:28 UTC 2011


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

> El día Thursday, January 13, 2011 a las 09:28:29PM +0100, David Demelier
> escribió:
>
> > 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 at 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 refers
> > 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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