From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 6 13:23:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E620158F6 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@planet.nl) Received: from gs0164-1.dial.wxs.nl ([195.121.144.164]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA50C7; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:23:45 +0200 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:23:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Veldman X-Sender: freebsd@lurkie.wxs.nl To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Christophe Prevotaux , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The importance of a correctly set time (was: Make buildworld fails) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Christophe Prevotaux wrote: > > > Do I have to reinstall 3.2 RELEASE from CD and re CVSUP again ? > > since I changed time by ntpdate ? > > No. An up-to-date time is really all you need. Agreed. That worked for me. I've been checking the relevant documentation on the subject (make world tutorial, FreeBSD handbook, 'The Complete FreeBSD' 2nd and 3rd edition) and I could not find any explicit statement of the importance of a correctly set kernel/CMOS time. Maybe something for the tutorials/handbook/Complete FreeBSD ? *If your kernel/CMOS time is not set correctly, your 'make world' and 'make install' of various ports may fail in unexpected ways* For fun/learning, I'll start playing around with system time and make buildworlds, and post the results here. Marc Veldman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message