From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 22 21:51:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA20670 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:51:30 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA20664 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:51:28 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA09559; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:51:27 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506230451.VAA09559@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Check the date and time at boot To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mpp@legarto.minn.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jaye Mathisen" at Jun 22, 95 09:40:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1192 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > > On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > 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 > > 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. > > > The flaw here is that not everybody is connected to the internet to run a > clock-checker program... And these are the same types of people who are likely to turn there machines off for more than a few hours, causing this little utility to falsely trigger ever time they boot. No thanks, I don't want to answer all those newbie silly bug reports :-) But I suppose since it would have an /etc/sysconfig knob, with the default state to be off, if it where to be implemented the way that Sun or HP/Apollo did it and use the superblock time stamp instead of some cron job I would be willing to bring it in. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD