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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:45 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <igo06u$2cf$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com>
References:  <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com>

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On 13/01/2011 21:28, David Demelier wrote:
> 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.

If you haven't removed it, a line in /etc/rc.conf should be written by 
sysinstall at system install time:

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Sep 14 16:13:22 2008

On a newer system (7+?), the timestamp of /etc/hostid would be from the 
first boot.




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