From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 21:03:24 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 68EB8106566C for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:03:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sterling@camdensoftware.com) Received: from wh2.interactivevillages.com (wh2.interactivevillages.com [75.125.250.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAF18FC15 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-22-230-24.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([24.22.230.24] helo=_HOSTNAME_) by wh2.interactivevillages.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PdUKF-0000Zi-08 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:03:20 -0800 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:03:19 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:03:19 -0800 From: Chip Camden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110113210319.GD3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> <20110113204525.GB3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <579FC70C-5B5B-43B4-9E71-D765887FAF6F@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d01dLTUuW90fS44H" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <579FC70C-5B5B-43B4-9E71-D765887FAF6F@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Company: Camden Software Consulting URL: http://camdensoftware.com X-PGP-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xD6DBAF91 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - wh2.interactivevillages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - camdensoftware.com 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 21:03:24 -0000 --d01dLTUuW90fS44H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Certainly the target of the link would change; my /etc/termcap points to: >=20 > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 206901 Dec 14 21:03 /usr/share/misc/termcap >=20 > This particular box I'm looking at had been updated from FreeBSD-4.x thro= ugh 7-STABLE, so a 2001 timestamp for the original installs seems about rig= ht. >=20 > I wonder, are you folks using something other than UFS for / filesystem..= .perhaps ZFS or whatever handles the dates on symlinks differently? >=20 > Regards, > --=20 > -Chuck I'm all UFS. My first installation was 8.0-RELEASE. At that time, I don't think termcap was even a symlink, but I could be mistaken. I'm looking at the date on the symlink itself, not its target. --=20 Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com | http://chipstips.= com --d01dLTUuW90fS44H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNL2iXAAoJEIpckszW26+RlO0H/2QcvtZ7Ck2JTDvd82Ldkqye lE44jC6ETL4S6b8XHguuaE8MDkCeUwndRH6xDD9X9JzoHu25b7B9VKx/o5VZpWmD TJ82mxgNspaYcA9n9TTEbi10TwQk6IkunHNSRQU/zlmqH5MtU5snuDf8ievtpWxX 5hmQ8kNOEA10P0DqK/4Btuxn+MldfN0RccTVNzcIkvJQYPvDs7bUAYjLMVWLTrMP Sq7+SM9W54HpdRzczkzqtUcYLDEXWC9PRhbjMT1tIYYGCXZKN9EMU2TDGxJ4b2Sv yuhsZJx+swm6Uz7HrhYKLeTnO2o6qwd9RBEZGHKAeYAim49SXP0ZTtvF13wJgyQ= =BDDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d01dLTUuW90fS44H--