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Subject: Re: installworld with specified ctime possible?
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On Fri, 2005-Mar-25 19:27:51 +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
>Does anybody know a trick how I can have the files, installed by installworld,
>have a specified ctime?

Quick answer: you can't.

ctime is the inode change time and is always updated by the UFS code to
reflect the system time at which an inode change occurred.  The only way
to control it is by setting the system clock - and that will have all
sorts of other undesirable side-effects.
-- 
Peter Jeremy