On 01/13/2011 11:28 PM, 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.
I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Alexandr Sushko
alexandrsus...@gmail.comwrote:
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
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a
system upgrade if you want to find out the `true' answer as to when the
box was first ... what? partitioned? newfs'd? clue me in here.
What _is_ the definition
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a
system upgrade if you want to find out the `true' answer as to when the
box was first ... what?
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:09:52PM +, Devin Teske wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a
system upgrade if you want to find
I tried responding to an off-list message. Delivery failed for some
reason.
I just don't want the sender of the message to which I tried to reply to
think I'm ignoring him, so I elected to send this to the list.
Thanks for your patience.
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On 14/01/2011 19:46, Carl Johnson wrote:
Chip Camdensterl...@camdensoftware.com writes:
Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011:
I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories
stat -f %SB %N /*
Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the
remaining top
2011/1/13 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com:
Quoth David Demelier on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
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.
I think
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
On 13 January 2011 20:34, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
El día Thursday, January 13, 2011 a las 09:28:29PM +0100, David Demelier
escribió:
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
Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011:
I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories
stat -f %SB %N /*
Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the
remaining top level directories
sodserve# stat -f %SB %N /*
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT
Quoth David DEMELIER on Friday, 14 January 2011:
2011/1/13 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com:
The date on the /home symlink reflects my install date. I don't think
anything would touch that.
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote:
How about /var/empty:
% ls -ldo /var/empty/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jul 18 19:16 /var/empty/
It can be changed, but doesn't look likely.
Ivan's e-mail I think might be a little more accurate
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
On 14 January 2011 15:37, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote:
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
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:32:13 -0800
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote:
sodserve# stat -f %SB %N /*
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot
Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 /dev
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /etc
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /lib
Jan 9
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes:
Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011:
I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories
stat -f %SB %N /*
Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the
remaining top level directories
sodserve# stat
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.
I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system can
helps but which one?
markand@Melon ~ $ ls
El dÃa Thursday, January 13, 2011 a las 09:28:29PM +0100, David Demelier
escribió:
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.
I think searching a file
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
Quoth David Demelier on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
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.
I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever
Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
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
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
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote:
On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation
(Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I first
installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010.
Certainly the target of the link would change; my
Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote:
On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation
(Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I first
installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010.
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 13:03 -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote:
On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation
(Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I
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
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 13:50 -0800, Chuck Swiger 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
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
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
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
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
Quoth Ivan Voras on Friday, 14 January 2011:
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
Quoth Carl Johnson on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
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
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:28:29 +0100
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com 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.
I think searching a file
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes:
Quoth Carl Johnson on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
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
I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories
stat -f %SB %N /*
Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the
remaining top level directories
sodserve# stat -f %SB %N /*
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot
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