From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 11:35:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:35:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04173 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA12030; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:32:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:32:59 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199807241832.LAA12030@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: jer@jorsm.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Time/Date/Version/Etc Stamping In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:45:31 -0500 (CDT) >From: Jeremy Shaffner >I always see lines like: >$Id: sysconfig,v 1.52.2.3 1997/01/09 02:42:45 alex Exp $ >In various config files and such. Are these lines generated by any >stamping tool or are they just manually entered? Created by RCS, via the "$Id$" keyword. In this case, probably from the use of RCS facilities by CVS. The "$Id$" gets expanded to what you report above at check-in time (if I recall correctly). See the man page for "rcsintro" for additional information. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message