On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 13:03 -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011:
> > 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
>
> I'm all UFS. My first installation was 8.0-RELEASE. At that time, I
> don't think termcap was even a symlink, but I could be mistaken.
>
> I'm looking at the date on the symlink itself, not its target.
This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to
query the date the machine was built):
ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf
But again... not always. Though for all situations where the answer is
_NOT_ the correct answer... there's usually a damned-good explanation
why (the machine was rsync'd etc.), in which case I still consider the
date returned to be accurate (for any time /etc/defaults/rc.conf -- or
perhaps even better... /etc/rc -- is touched, I'd consider the system to
be "rebuilt" since those files should be somewhat "golden" on a system
-- read: never touched except during system upgrade or rsync etc.).
--
Cheers,
Devin Teske
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