From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 23:54:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA06685 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA06665 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA05097 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:50:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA04751 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:50:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA04564 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:50:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604010750.JAA04564@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:50:05 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) 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 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)