On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to > > query the date the machine was built): > > > > ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf > > I gather that you don't ever run mergemaster, which would update this file? > My machine installed in 2001 has a Dec 2010 date for that file: > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 36037 Dec 1 14:13 /etc/defaults/rc.conf
Exactly that was my thought. Maybe a file that is NOT subject to one of the system upgrade procedures would be better? Maybe something in /boot? % ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 34300 Aug 24 2008 /etc/defaults/rc.conf % ls -l /boot/defaults/loader.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 19426 Aug 24 2008 /boot/defaults/loader.conf No, forget about that, also nonsense, looks to new... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
