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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:55:39 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <579FC70C-5B5B-43B4-9E71-D765887FAF6F@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110113204525.GB3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
References:  <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> <BF2F84C5-AB13-4FE1-AB43-AD965E21980E@mac.com> <20110113204525.GB3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>

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On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote:
> On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation
> (Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009).  I first
> installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010.

Certainly the target of the link would change; my /etc/termcap points to:

-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  206901 Dec 14 21:03 /usr/share/misc/termcap

This particular box I'm looking at had been updated from FreeBSD-4.x through 7-STABLE, so a 2001 timestamp for the original installs seems about right.

I wonder, are you folks using something other than UFS for / filesystem...perhaps ZFS or whatever handles the dates on symlinks differently?

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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