From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 21:09:45 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 8950D1065670 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:09:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dteske@vicor.com) Received: from postoffice.vicor.com (postoffice.vicor.com [69.26.56.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4D08FC15 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.82.228.132] (port=51125) by postoffice.vicor.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiZ67-0008Jq-1E; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:09:44 -0800 From: Devin Teske To: Chad Perrin In-Reply-To: <20110127203928.GE75822@guilt.hydra> References: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> <20110113204525.GB3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <579FC70C-5B5B-43B4-9E71-D765887FAF6F@mac.com> <20110113210319.GD3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <1294955182.10908.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <2062F50F-5D14-496C-A97A-FC4CDB3FDD3F@mac.com> <1294955858.10908.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20110127203928.GE75822@guilt.hydra> Organization: VICOR, Inc. Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:09:52 +0000 Message-ID: <1296162592.20060.41.camel@dt.vicor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 X-Scan-Signature: b33a05b2664869ea37197335591d72c9 X-Scan-Host: postoffice.vicor.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD - 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, 27 Jan 2011 21:09:45 -0000 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? partitioned? newfs'd? clue me in here. > > > > What _is_ the definition of "built" ??? When the hardware pieces were > > coalesced into a single chassis? If that's the case, I'd be looking at > > model numbers of internal parts. > > I suspect that at this point you are just being pedantic, Correct. I get paid to be pedantic. It's a staple of my tenure-track position. > and that you > know what the question actually means Correct. Going back to the OP's e-mail, he indeed clarified that he was only interested in the install-date of FreeBSD. > ; you just want to dismiss the > question as immaterial. Incorrect and perceptually [unrightly] indignent. The above statements (which you've taken out of context) were not to the OP but a reply-thread between Chuck Swiger and myself. -- Devin