From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 7 18:41:55 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5B014E2A; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA17308; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:09:47 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA19831; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:09:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990408110944.R2142@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:09:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Gary Palmer Cc: Nick Sayer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c References: <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com> <57988.923535272@noop.colo.erols.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <57988.923535272@noop.colo.erols.net>; from Gary Palmer on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:34:32PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 21:34:32 -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote in message ID > <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com>: >> Does this mean that if somebody accidentally sets the time to the >> wrong year, the only thing he can do to fix it is to reboot in >> single-user mode? I'm not convinced that this is a gain. What do >> people doing Y2K tests do? > > People doing Y2K tests should be rebooting their systems anyhow to > check that the system comes up ok after 1/1/2000. If they aren't, then > their tests are flawed. That's one test. It's not the only one. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message