From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 17:26:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA1616A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:26:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.rot-1.de (rot-1.de [213.146.120.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C24A43D2F for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:26:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stevan@rot-1.de) Received: from mail.rot-1.de (localhost.rot-1.de [127.0.0.1]) by mail.rot-1.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j22HPpvj025342; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:25:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stevan@mail.rot-1.de) Received: from localhost (stevan@localhost)j22HPnra025339; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:25:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stevan@mail.rot-1.de) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:25:48 +0100 (CET) From: Stevan Tiefert To: Nathan Kinkade In-Reply-To: <20050302161524.GR3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Message-ID: <20050302182210.U25321@mail.rot-1.de> References: <20050302162016.W24958@mail.rot-1.de> <20050302154409.GO3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <20050302161524.GR3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:26:02 -0000 On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:03:35PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > >>The security advisory give me the possibility to patch my system or to > > >>download the "patched" FreeBSD via ftp. How can I recognize which creation > > >>time the running system has? > > > > > >Try the command `uname -v`. > > > > AFAIK this command tells you the build time, but now how fresh the > > source was. > > > > Erik > > Yes, you are correct, but he mentions that he wants to know the > "creation" (build?) time of the "running system," so I figured that the > date/time provided by uname was what he was looking for. Maybe you are > right, though. Perhaps more important is whether his sources are newer > than the fix date. > > Nathan > Hello Nathan, I need the date/time to decide if I need to download a version from the ftp-server in belief I would not need to patch my system anymore. But you are writing there is a better method to decide when a download is necessary or not? Which one? With regards Stevan Tiefert