Date of a FreeBSD installation

Chris Brennan xaero at xaerolimit.net
Thu Jan 27 16:21:21 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Alexandr Sushko
<alexandrsushko at gmail.com>wrote:

> Try to use not ls -l, but ls -lc. It will show you file creation time.
>
>
> ls -lcd /bin/, for example
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1024 Dec 10 00:31 /bin/
>
>
I ran this and the earliest date I found was Oct 12, 2008 which seems to be
around when I migrated from 7.2 to 7.3 and this box has been alive since
6.0-RELEASE, it's a good 5-6 yrs old....


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