From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 16:15:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDA016A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:15:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20C443D39 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:15:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDCDC5AD29 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:15:31 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: r81mYypMEaUwNggoiJ8F3w 1109780129 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28E525599 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:15:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1D6WVQ-00027l-AV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:15:24 -0600 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:15:24 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050302161524.GR3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050302162016.W24958@mail.rot-1.de> <20050302154409.GO3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <4225E3D7.7030709@locolomo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wlFCko3yyTbBmKK8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4225E3D7.7030709@locolomo.org> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3FDF A406 B149 3959 A8CB C5A9 3B46 4812 D852 7E49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Subject: Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:15:36 -0000 --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--