Date of a FreeBSD installation

[Chip Camden]

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
> 
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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.

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