Date of a FreeBSD installation

[Chip Camden]

Quoth n j on Friday, 14 January 2011:
> >>> 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.
> 
> How about looking at /proc or /mnt?
> 
> On a couple of my boxes that I checked, those files came up being the
> oldest and probably match the installation date.
> 
> -- 
> Nino

For me, /proc is older, /mnt is newer, than the install date.

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