Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:25:48 +0100 (CET) From: Stevan Tiefert <stevan@rot-1.de> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system Message-ID: <20050302182210.U25321@mail.rot-1.de> In-Reply-To: <20050302161524.GR3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <20050302162016.W24958@mail.rot-1.de> <20050302154409.GO3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <20050302161524.GR3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > 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 creation > > >>time the running system has? > > > > > >Try the command `uname -v`. > > > > AFAIK this command tells you the build time, but now how fresh the > > source was. > > > > 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 > Hello Nathan, I need the date/time to decide if I need to download a version from the ftp-server in belief I would not need to patch my system anymore. But you are writing there is a better method to decide when a download is necessary or not? Which one? With regards Stevan Tiefert
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