2011/1/13 Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com>:
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, David Demelier wrote:
>> 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?
>
>
> Symlinks under /etc are a good choice:
>
> # cd /etc ; ls -ltr | head
> total 1242
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel         23 May 26  2001 termcap@ -> 
> /usr/share/misc/termcap
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel         13 May 26  2001 rmt@ -> /usr/sbin/rmt
>
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck
>
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markand@Melon ~ $ cd /etc ; ls -ltr | head
total 612
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 19 Jul 04:16 zfs
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 19 Jul 04:16 skel

Same that my original post. I have not installed FreeBSD on July but
as Chip says the /home symlink is a pretty good choice :-)

Thanks

-- 
Demelier David
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