Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:15:24 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system Message-ID: <20050302161524.GR3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <4225E3D7.7030709@locolomo.org> References: <20050302162016.W24958@mail.rot-1.de> <20050302154409.GO3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <4225E3D7.7030709@locolomo.org>
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--wlFCko3yyTbBmKK8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 creat= ion > >>time the running system has? > > > >Try the command `uname -v`. >=20 > AFAIK this command tells you the build time, but now how fresh the=20 > source was. >=20 > 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 --wlFCko3yyTbBmKK8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJeacO0ZIEthSfkkRAu/vAKCohzZv67Q6/RtvxDAS2eMeSt0wcQCfcYL0 hws354E708LrR+EgG8DfAS4= =Nnwt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wlFCko3yyTbBmKK8--
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