Date of a FreeBSD installation

[Matthias Apitz]

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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