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Kris Kennaway writes:

>  > >  The information is in many places: on the FreeBSD website, under
>  > >  /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree, and elsewhere.
>  > 
>  > 	Is there any reason:
>  > 
>  > huff@> uname -a
>
>  > 	doesn't work?
>  
>  That's the date you compiled a new kernel, not the date you last
>  updated the sources for the kernel + world.

	I'm confused.
	To the original poster: are you asking how to determine when
the last update of your system sources (via cvsup etc.) happened?
Or how to determine when the last system (kernel+system utilities
upgrade happened? 
	(Information about the official dates of various releases can
be found at "http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html".)


					Robert Huff