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. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com | http://chipstips.com
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