From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 14:05:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA01907 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:05:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01893 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA17423 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:57:36 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 1 Apr 96 00:57:36 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA01325; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 01:55:18 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199603312155.BAA01325@astral.msk.su> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 01:55:18 -4400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603312031.WAA00808@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Mar 31, 96 10:31:00 pm" From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL14 (25)] 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 > (Moved to -current, where this better fits.) > > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think this is reasonable. If I'm running single-user with nothing > > but root mounted, I *expect* some things not to work quite right. I > > can't run vi very nicely without my /var mounted either, for that > > matter, and I usually find this far more objectionable than the > > timezone being set wrong. > > Funny you should mention this -- vi needs /usr/share/misc/termcap as > well. :-)) I hope we won't install termcap directly into /etc now... If you can't start vi due to missing termcap, it isn't dangerous at all. But when your /etc/localtime is missing or clobbered by NFS, it really dangerous because even BIOS clock can be changed to wrong value! -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849