Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:50:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c Message-ID: <199604010750.JAA04564@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604010045.EAA01805@astral.msk.su> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Apr 1, 96 04:45:37 am
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As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > Missing or corrupting or hanging on (via NFS) any of those files not > critical, but missing/corrupting/hanging on /etc/localtime is very > critical, because even RTC clock can be corrupted. It just occured me (while modifying tzsetup again) that your argumentation has one weak point: you are already screwed in your case, since /etc/localtime covers only the very special case of a missing `TZ' environmental variable. :-P -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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