From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 22:41:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6707737B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22126 invoked by uid 100); 22 Feb 2002 06:41:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15477.59412.41060.54328@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:41:24 -0600 To: Stephen Hoover Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Versions In-Reply-To: <39802835@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Hoover types: > How do you determine what version of a file you have in FreeBSD? > > For instance, if a file was patched do to a security fix, how can I look > at that file and tell that it is the most current version? > > Just use the binary pw for example. ident. Point it at the binary, and it'll tell you the version of every file that was used in compiling it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message