Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:51:04 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net Cc: mtm@identd.net Subject: Re: RCng/NTP Catch-22 Message-ID: <20041021.165104.59582131.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20041021221715.GA4730@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20041021152920.GB1811@rogue.acs.lan> <20041021.150623.04864669.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041021221715.GA4730@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
: On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:06:23PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20041021152920.GB1811@rogue.acs.lan>
: > Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> writes:
: > : devfs can't be
: > : run before NETWORKING because it depends on at least one binary in
: > : /usr/sbin. See my patch and reply to Andre.
: >
: > which one? devfs is in /sbin.
:
: It looks like chown. That one always suprises me even though I've hit
: it a number of times. I think this is because you can't safely do
: anything involving user names before you have working directory services
: and you can't be sure you have those before you have user. Hmm, I
: wonder what happens if you try to use chown when you have nss configured
: to use a directory, but don't have /usr mountd.
Maybe that's why the LOGIN thing was there before :-(
Warner
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