From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 16:21:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FF41065670 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:21:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1C08FC17 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:21:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb26 with SMTP id 26so1665524iyb.13 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:21:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.230.137 with SMTP id jm9mr2368725icb.317.1296145280114; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:21:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.229.202 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:20:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D41334D.3040103@gmail.com> References: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> <4D41334D.3040103@gmail.com> From: Chris Brennan Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:20:59 -0500 Message-ID: To: Alexandr Sushko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:21:21 -0000 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Alexandr Sushko wrote: > Try to use not ls -l, but ls -lc. It will show you file creation time. > > > ls -lcd /bin/, for example > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Dec 10 00:31 /bin/ > > I ran this and the earliest date I found was Oct 12, 2008 which seems to be around when I migrated from 7.2 to 7.3 and this box has been alive since 6.0-RELEASE, it's a good 5-6 yrs old....