From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 22 20:02:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA15473 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 20:02:16 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA15450 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 20:02:08 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA27792; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:29:30 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506230259.MAA27792@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Check the date and time at boot To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:29:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: mpp@legarto.minn.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199506230055.RAA09076@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 22, 95 05:55:06 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1360 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Rodney W. Grimes stands accused of saying: > > Is there any interest in some /etc/rc changes (along with a small > > helper program) to check if the system date and time may be > > wrong? I did this after having my system clock wacked a couple > > of times, and didn't notice it for a day or so, and thought that it > > would be a good thing to have in the system by default > The more correct way to fix this is to use either ntpdate or timed > at boot time. Both are already supported by /etc/rc and /etc/sysconfig, > I don't think we need yet a third way to get the date right during boot. I'd disagree; not everyone's connected to the 'net. This is similar to the Sun thing that prints unhappy messages if the root filesystem's timestamp and the time are out by more than a day or so. I've certainly been drawn to time problems by that message more than once, so I'd say that it was a plus. > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[