Date of a FreeBSD installation

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011:
> > I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories
> >
> > stat -f "%SB %N" /*
> 
> Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the
> remaining top level directories
> 
> 
> sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /*
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /bin
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /boot
> Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 /dev
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /etc
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /lib
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /libexec
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /media
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /mnt
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /proc
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /rescue
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /root
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /sbin
> Jan  9 04:54:21 2011 /sys
> Jan  9 04:48:39 2011 /tmp
> Jan  9 04:48:45 2011 /usr
> Jan  9 04:49:39 2011 /var
> 
> sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /
> Jan  9 04:39:59 2011 /

For me, that gets the Nov 21 2009 date, which is earlier than my
install date.

So far, /etc/hostid and the /home symlink seem to be the winners.

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