security advisories and the creating time of my system

[Stevan Tiefert]

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