From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 20:55:50 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 E84211065674 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:55:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout023.mac.com (asmtpout023.mac.com [17.148.16.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA4B8FC1A for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:55:50 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp023.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LEZ00L0ABGRSDB0@asmtp023.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:55:40 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-01-13_09:2011-01-13, 2011-01-13, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1010190000 definitions=main-1101130132 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <20110113204525.GB3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:55:39 -0800 Message-id: <579FC70C-5B5B-43B4-9E71-D765887FAF6F@mac.com> References: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> <20110113204525.GB3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> To: Chip Camden , David Demelier X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) 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, 13 Jan 2011 20:55:51 -0000 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 /etc/termcap points to: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 206901 Dec 14 21:03 /usr/share/misc/termcap This particular box I'm looking at had been updated from FreeBSD-4.x through 7-STABLE, so a 2001 timestamp for the original installs seems about right. I wonder, are you folks using something other than UFS for / filesystem...perhaps ZFS or whatever handles the dates on symlinks differently? Regards, -- -Chuck